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Varus
the Arrow of Retribution
Release date	2012-05-08
Last changed	V11.12
Class(es)	Marksman Artillery
Legacy	Marksman Mage
Position(s)	Bottom
Resource	Mana
Range type	Ranged
Adaptive type	Physical
Store price	4800 | 880
Crafting	+ 2880
Ratings
Damage 3 Toughness 1 Control 2 Mobility 1 Utility 1
Style
Difficulty
Champion Spotlight
Varus Champion Spotlight

Varus is a champion in League of Legends.

Base statisticsVarusEdit
Health 530+91
Health 530+91
Mana 360+40
Mana 360+40
Health regen. (per 5s) 3.5+0.55
Health regen. (per 5s) 3.5+0.55
Mana regen. (per 5s) 8+0.8
Mana regen. (per 5s) 8+0.8
Armor 27+3.4
Armor 27+3.4
Attack damage 61+3.4
Attack damage 61+3.4
Magic resist. 30+0.5
Magic resist. 30+0.5
Crit. damage 175%
Crit. damage 175%
Move. speed 330
Move. speed 330
Attack range 575
Attack range 575
Attack speed
Base AS 0.658
Base AS 0.658
Attack windup 17.544%
Attack windup 17.544%
AS ratio N/A
AS ratio N/A
Bonus AS +4%
Bonus AS +4%
Missile speed 2000
Missile speed 2000
Unit radius
Gameplay radius 65
Gameplay radius 65
Selection radius 120
Selection radius 120
Pathing radius 35
Pathing radius 35
Acq. radius 600
Acq. radius 600
Special statistics
Dmg. Dealt -5%
Dmg. Dealt -5%
Dmg. Taken +5%
Dmg. Taken +5%
Healing +0%
Healing +0%
Shielding +0%
Shielding +0%
Dmg. Dealt +0%
Dmg. Dealt +0%
Dmg. Taken +0%
Dmg. Taken +0%
Healing +0%
Healing +0%
Shielding +0%
Shielding +0%
Dmg. Dealt +0%
Dmg. Dealt +0%
Dmg. Taken +0%
Dmg. Taken +0%
Healing +0%
Healing +0%
Shielding +0%
Shielding +0%
Dmg. Dealt +0%
Dmg. Dealt +0%
Dmg. Taken +0%
Dmg. Taken +0%
Healing +0%
Healing +0%
Shielding +0%
Shielding +0%
Dmg. Dealt +0%
Dmg. Dealt +0%
Dmg. Taken +0%
Dmg. Taken +0%
Healing +0%
Healing +0%
Shielding +0%
Shielding +0%

Abilities

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Living Vengeance

Living Vengeance

Innate: Varus gains 20% (+ 15% bonus attack speed) bonus attack speed for 5 seconds on non-champion kills, increased to 40% (+ 30% bonus attack speed) whenever scoring a takedown against an enemy champion.

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Targeting input	Passive

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Piercing Arrow

Piercing Arrow
RANGE:	895 − 1595 (based on channel time)
WIDTH:	140
SPEED:	1900
CAST TIME:	none
COST:	65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 mana
COOLDOWN:	16 / 14.5 / 13 / 11.5 / 10

Active: Varus charges while being slowed by 20% for up to 4 seconds to increase Piercing Arrow's  range and damage over the first 1.25 seconds of the channel. Piercing Arrow can be recast at any time within its duration.

If the charge completes without reactivation, Piercing Arrow is canceled, refunding 50% of its  mana cost.

Recast: Varus fires a piercing arrow in the target direction, dealing physical damage to all enemies within its path. The damage of the arrow as well as any detonated Blight stacks are increased by 0% − 50% (based on channel time), and the arrow's damage is reduced by 0% − 67% (based on enemies hit).

Minimum Physical Damage: 10 / 46.67 / 83.33 / 120 / 156.67 (+ 83.33 / 86.67 / 90 / 93.33 / 96.67% AD) Minimum Fully Reduced Damage: 3.3 / 15.4 / 27.5 / 39.6 / 51.7 (+ 27.5 / 28.6 / 29.7 / 30.8 / 31.9% AD) Maximum Physical Damage: 15 / 70 / 125 / 180 / 235 (+ 125 / 130 / 135 / 140 / 145% AD) Maximum Fully Reduced Damage: 4.95 / 23.1 / 41.25 / 59.4 / 77.55 (+ 41.25 / 42.9 / 44.55 / 46.2 / 47.85% AD)

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Targeting input	Auto / Direction
Damage type
Type	Area damage
Type	Area damage
Sub-type	Physical
Sub-type	Physical
Counters
Spell shield	Blocked
Spell shield	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked

• The arrow missile range is 825 to 1525; The range increases by 140 per 0.25 seconds for the first 1.25 seconds. Upon reaching its maximum range, it also strikes additional targets in a 70 radius, rounding off the struck area.
• The indicator for the range of the spell will be displayed for the entire channel.
• Piercing Arrow will cast from wherever Varus is at the end of the channel.
• Piercing Arrow's damage will display a cosmetic critical strike when fully charged.
• The following table refers for interactions while Varus is channeling:

Type		Charge channel
Attacking		Disabled
Abilities		Blighted Quiver is usable during the first 0.25 seconds, otherwise, it's disabled. Hail of Arrows and Chain of Corruption are disabled. This ability recasts to end channel.
Movement		Allowed
Items	Usable	N/A
	Disabled	All items are disabled
	Interrupted by	N/A
Consumables		Disabled, but can still use trinkets.
Spells	Usable	Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite Flash
	Disabled	Teleport Recall
	Interrupted by	Hexflash (Recasts)
Interrupted by		Death Cast-inhibiting effects

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Blighted Quiver

Blighted Quiver
CAST TIME:	none
COOLDOWN:	40

Passive: Varus' basic attacks deal bonus magic damage and apply a stack of Blight for 6 seconds, stacking up to 3 times, refreshing on subsequent applications.

Bonus Magic Damage: 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 (+ 25% AP)

Varus' other abilities consume stacks of Blight on enemies upon damaging them to deal bonus magic damage and, if they are a champion or epic monster, reduce his basic abilities' cooldowns by 12% of the maximum cooldown for each stack on the target, up to 36% per target. The bonus damage is capped at 360 against monsters.

Bonus Magic Damage per Stack: 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5% (+ 2% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health Maximum Bonus Magic Damage: 9 / 10.5 / 12 / 13.5 / 15% (+ 6% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health

Active: Varus' next Piercing Arrow within 5.5 seconds deals 6% − 14% (based on level) of the target's missing health bonus magic damage, increased by 0% − 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's channel time), for a maximum of 9% − 21% (based on level) of the target's missing health. This damage is capped at 360 against monsters. If Varus is not charging Piercing Arrow, Blighted Quiver can be recast after 1 second for its duration, and does so automatically when its duration ends or Varus dies within the duration.

Blighted Quiver can be cast during the first 0.25 seconds of Piercing Arrow's charge. Blighted Quiver is placed on full cooldown even if the charge completes without reactivation or is interrupted.

Recast: Varus cancels Blighted Quiver and places it on a 1 second  cooldown.

Blighted Quiver's active and recast can both be used while affected by cast-inhibiting crowd control.

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Targeting input	Auto
Damage type
Type	Proc damage
Type	Proc damage
Sub-type	Magic
Sub-type	Magic
Counters
Spell shield	See Notes
Spell shield	See Notes
Parries	Missing
Parries	Missing

• Spell shield will not block the on-hit damage but will block the consuming damage if the target is hit by his abilities.
• Blighted Quiver's active damage is dealt after the damage of Piercing Arrow.
• Blighted Quiver does not count as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and stacking Force Pulse.
• 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 : Blighted Quiver's on-hit interaction with parrying effects ( dodge, block, blind).

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Hail of Arrows

Hail of Arrows
TARGET RANGE:	925
EFFECT RADIUS:	300
CAST TIME:	0.2419
COST:	80 mana
COOLDOWN:	18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10

Active: Varus fires a hail of arrows at the target location which lands after 0.5 seconds, dealing physical damage to all enemies within the area.

Physical Damage: 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 (+ 60% bonus AD)

The area then becomes desecrated for 4 seconds, slowing all enemies within and inflicting them with 40% Grievous Wounds.

Slow: 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45%

Hail of Arrows will cast at max range if cast beyond that.

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Targeting input	Location
Damage type
Type	Area damage
Type	Area damage
Sub-type	Magic
Sub-type	Magic
Counters
Spell shield	Blocked
Spell shield	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked

• Slow lingers for 0.25 seconds after leaving the marked area.
• Hail of Arrows consumes Blighted Quiver stacks for bonus damage a second time after ~0.3 seconds of hitting, allowing stacks applied during this time to be triggered.

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Chain of Corruption

Chain of Corruption
RANGE:	1370
EFFECT RADIUS:	650
WIDTH:	240
TETHER RADIUS:	650
SPEED:	1500
CAST TIME:	0.2419
COST:	100 mana
COOLDOWN:	100 / 80 / 60

Active: Varus releases a tendril of corruption in the target direction that infects the first enemy champion hit, dealing them magic damage and rooting them for 2 seconds, during which they are revealed and inflicted with full stacks of Blight over the first 1.5 seconds.

Magic Damage: 150 / 200 / 250 (+ 100% AP)

Upon impact, the tendril roots into the ground from which it seeks out other nearby enemy champions. If they do not leave the tether's range within 2 seconds, it infects them as well. Tendrils will spread from them again until there are no champions in range that have not already been infected.

The tendril seeks targets regardless of having sight of them or not.

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Targeting input	Direction
Damage type
Type	Area damage
Type	Area damage
Sub-type	Magic
Sub-type	Magic
Counters
Spell shield	Blocked
Spell shield	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked

• Enemy champions can be targeted again by the corruption's tether if they were not infected the previous time, even if they were targeted and got out of range.
• Chain of Corruption will not infect crowd control immune targets or those protected by spell shields (but will still seek them).
• Varus will turn to face the target direction at the start of the cast.
• The tendril cannot seek enemy champions that are untargetable.
• Chain of Corruption will cast from wherever Varus is at the end of the cast time.
• Consuming the Blight's stacks applied by Chain of Corruption will deal bonus magic damage based on Blighted Quiver's rank. If the ability hasn't been ranked yet, the three Blight stacks will still be applied but they will be considered to be at rank 0, dealing 1.25% (+ 2% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health per stack.

Patch history

For the expanded patch notes, see here.

V11.12

• Blighted Quiver
  • Piercing Arrow maximum bonus damage reduced to 9% − 21% (based on level) of the target's missing health from 10.8% − 25.2% (based on level).

V11.7

• Stats
  • Attack damage growth increased to 3.4 from 3.

V11.4

• Blighted Quiver
  • Piercing Arrow maximum bonus damage increased to 10.8% − 25.2% (based on level) of the target's missing health from 9% − 21% (based on level).

V11.2

• Stats
  • Mana growth increased to 40 from 33.
• Chain of Corruption
  • Cooldown reduced to 100 / 80 / 60 seconds from 120 / 90 / 60.

V11.1 - January 6th Hotfix

• Piercing Arrow
  • Mana cost reduced to 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 from 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90.
  • Cooldown reduced to 16 / 14.5 / 13 / 11.5 / 10 seconds from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10.

V10.24

• Piercing Arrow
  • Removed: Detonating Blight with Piercing Arrow no longer reduces it's cooldown by 3 seconds.
  • New Effect: Blight damage detonated by Piercing Arrow is now increased by 0% − 50% (based on channel time).
  • New Effect: Now shows critical strike text when fully charged.
• Blighted Quiver
  • Bonus on-hit magic damage reduced to 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 from 7 / 10.5 / 14 / 17.5 / 21.
  • New Effect: Detonating Blight against champions and epic monsters now reduces his basic ability cooldowns by 12% per stack.
• Chain of Corruption
  • New Effect: Now snaps to face the target direction on start of cast.
  • Missile speed reduced to 1500 from 1950.

V10.20

• Hail of Arrows
  • Base damage increased to 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 from 50 / 90 / 130 / 170 / 210.
• Chain of Corruption
  • Cooldown reduced to 120 / 90 / 60 seconds from 130 / 100 / 70.

V10.17

• Stats
  • Attack speed growth increased to 4% from 3%.

V10.14

• Piercing Arrow
  • Maximum AD ratio reduced to 125 / 130 / 135 / 140 / 145% AD from 150% AD at all ranks.
  • Minimum AD ratio reduced to 83.33 / 86.67 / 90 / 93.33 / 96.67% AD from 100% AD at all ranks.
• Hail of Arrows
  • Base damage reduced to 50 / 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 from 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210.

V10.12

• Stats
  • Attack damage growth reduced to 3 from 3.11.
• Piercing Arrow
  • Minimum AD ratio reduced to 100% AD from 110% AD.
    • Maximum AD ratio reduced to 150% AD from 165% AD.

V10.11

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 530 from 500.
  • Health growth increased to 91 from 89.

V10.8

• Piercing Arrow
  • Indicator added to show recast ability timer.
• Chain of Corruption
  • Cooldown increased to 130 / 100 / 70 seconds from 110 / 90 / 70.

V10.6

• General
  • Recommended items updated.
• Hail of Arrows
  • Bug Fix: When attempting to cast it outside of its maximum range immediately after Flashing, the ability's position will now properly update and cast at its post-Flash max range.

V10.5

• Hail of Arrows
  • Now casts at maximum range instead of casting in the targeted area.

V10.1

• Piercing Arrow
  • Cooldown reduced to 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 from 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12.
  • Blight stack detonation cooldown reduction reduced to 3 seconds from 4.

V9.20

• Stats
  • Base attack damage increased to 61 from 59.
  • Base mana regeneration increased to 8 from 7.34.
  • Base mana reduced to 360 from 360.48.
  • Base health increased to 500 from 499.

V9.4

• Blighted Quiver
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the detonation damage was lower than intended.

V9.1

• Hail of Arrows
  • Bug Fix: Slow zone VFX no longer fail to appear if cast from fog of war.

V8.24b

• Blighted Quiver
  • Active minimum damage increased to 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14% (based on level) of the target's missing health from 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10% (based on level).
  • Active maximum damage increased to 9 / 12 / 15 / 18 / 21% (based on level) of the target's missing health from 9 / 10.5 / 12 / 13.5 / 15% (based on level).
• Chain of Corruption
  • Base damage increased to 150 / 200 / 250 from 100 / 175 / 250.

V8.24

• Blighted Quiver
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that allowed his allies to detonate it.

V8.21

• Blighted Quiver
  • Undocumented: Blight now deals 2.5% (+ 2% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health damage per stack, from 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5% (+ 2% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health.

V8.17

• Stats
  • Base health reduced to 499 from 549.
  • Health growth increased to 89 from 86.

V8.13 - July 3rd Hotfix

• Piercing Arrow
  • Minimum AD ratio increased to 110% AD from 100% AD.
  • Maximum AD ratio increased to 165% AD from 150% AD.
• Blighted Quiver
  • Bonus on-hit magic damage increased to 7 / 10.5 / 14 / 17.5 / 21 from 5 / 9 / 13 / 17 / 21.
  • Health ratio per stack increased to 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5% of target's maximum health from 2 / 2.75 / 3.5 / 4.25 / 5%.

V8.11

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 549 from 537.76.
  • Health growth increased to 86 from 82.
  • Base armor reduced to 27 from 32.
  • Base health regeneration reduced to 3.5 from 5.5.
  • Base attack damage reduced to 59 from 63.
  • Attack damage growth increased to 3.11 from 2.41.

V8.9

• Blighted Quiver
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the basic attack played the base skin's sound effects instead of those for whatever skin was in use.
  • Bug Fix: Unique SFX have been restored for Varus and all skins.

V8.8

• Living Vengeance
  • Bonus attack speed ratio on champion takedown reduced to 30% bonus attack speed from 50%.
  • Bonus attack speed ratio on minion or monster kill reduced to 15% bonus attack speed from 25%.
• Blighted Quiver
  • Passive base damage reduced to 5 / 9 / 13 / 17 / 21 from 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 / 26.
  • New Active: Varus' next Piercing Arrow deals 6% / 7% / 8% / 9% / 10% (based on level) of the target's missing health bonus magic damage, increased by 0% − 50% (based on Piercing Arrow channel time), for a maximum of 9% / 10.5% / 12% / 13.5% / 15% (based on level) of the target's missing health. The damage is capped at 360 against monsters.
  • Cooldown: 40 seconds.
  • The damage is dealt after the damage of Piercing Arrow.

V8.3

• Stats
  • Base health regeneration increased to 5.5 from 5.424.

V8.1

• General
  • New splash artwork for Original Varus.

V7.22

• Stats
  • Base attack damage increased to 63 from 54.66.
  • Base armor increased to 32 from 23.212.
• Hail of Arrows
  • Base damage increased to 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 from 45 / 80 / 115 / 150 / 185.
• Dark Star Varus
  • Bug Fix: Shields now follow his model during his recall animation.

V7.19

• Dark Star Varus
  • Bug Fix: Blue tendrils no longer flicker during several graphics settings.

V7.13

• Chain of Corruption
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where hitting it, at its maximum range, wouldn't make it spread through enemies.

V7.9

• Stats
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 0.5 from 0.

V7.6

• Piercing Arrow
  • Cooldown reduction if hitting Blighted enemy champion increased to 4 seconds from 4 − 2.2 (based on cooldown reduction).

V7.5 Hotfix

• Piercing Arrow
  • Bug Fix: Cooldown refund against Blighted targets now properly applies at Piercing Arrow's max distance.

V7.5

• Piercing Arrow
  • Maximum AD ratio reduced to 150% AD from 165% AD.
  • Cooldown increased to 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 seconds from 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8.
  • New Effect: Cooldown is now reduced by 4 − 1.75 (based on cooldown reduction) seconds if the arrow detonates Blight stacks from at least one enemy champion.
• Blighted Quiver
  • Undocumented: Tooltip now indicates maximum damage per stack against monsters.

V7.4

• Heartseeker Varus
  • Piercing Arrow
    • Bug Fix: Now correctly gets audio when hitting an enemy in Fog of War with Piercing Arrow.

V6.24

• Living Vengeance
  • Duration on champion kills reduced to 5 seconds from 6.
  • New Effect: Bonus attack speed from champion kills now scales with 50% bonus attack speed.
  • Duration on non-champion kills increased to 5 seconds from 3.
  • New Effect: Bonus attack speed from non-champion kills now scales with 25% bonus attack speed.

V6.13

• Hail of Arrows
  • Bug Fix: Restored custom particles for Blight Crystal Varus's Hail of Arrows when the arrows land.

V6.10

• Piercing Arrow
  • Bug Fix: No longer occasionally deals damage against spell shielded targets.

V6.1

• Hail of Arrows
  • Updated to use new Grievous Wounds - 40% self-healing reduction instead of 50% incoming-healing reduction.

V5.22

• Stats
  • Base attack damage increased to 54.66 from 49.04.
  • Attack damage growth reduced to 2.41 from 3.
  • Base mana increased to 360.48 from 310.48.
  • Mana growth reduced to 33 from 36.
• Chain of Corruption
  • New Effect: Now displays max. spread range to Varus and his enemies if there is at least one tendril.
  • New Effect: Rooted targets now gain 3 stacks of Blight over the duration.
  • Base damage reduced to 100 / 175 / 250 from 150 / 250 / 350.

V5.5

• Piercing Arrow
  • Now begins its cooldown at charge start, rather than when the arrow fires.

V5.3

• Chain of Corruption
  • Missle width increased to 120 from 100.

V4.21

• Mana regeneration per 5 seconds growth stat increased to 0.8 from 0.5

V4.16

• Piercing Arrow
  • Line indicator removed (Now uses range circle again as per previous functionality).

V4.13

• Piercing Arrow
  • Now shows a line indicator in addition to circle indicator while charging.
• Chain of Corruption
  • Cooldown reduced to 110 / 90 / 70 seconds from 120 / 105 / 90 seconds.

V4.5

• Base armor increased to 17.5 from 13.5.

V3.13

• Chain of Corruption
  • Mana cost reduced to 100 from 120.

V3.8

• Piercing Arrow
  • Fixed a bug where casting Piercing Arrow while targeting an enemy would cause Varus to stop moving.
• Hail of Arrows
  • Slow refresh rate reduced to 0.25 seconds.

V3.7

• Stats
  • Base movement speed reduced to 330 from 335.
• Piercing Arrow
  • Minimum damage increased to 10 / 47 / 83 / 120 / 157 from 10 / 43 / 77 / 110 / 143.
  • Maximum damage increased to 15 / 70 / 125 / 180 / 235 from 15 / 65 / 115 / 165 / 215.
  • Improved hit detection at the end of the missile.
• Hail of Arrows
  • Base damage reduced to 65 / 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 from 65 / 105 / 145 / 185 / 225.
• Chain of Corruption
  • Improved hit detection at the end of the missile.

V1.0.0.152

• Stats
  • Movement speed increased to 335 from 310.

V1.0.0.145

• Piercing Arrow
  • Fixed: no longer sometimes fires from a point above his bow.
  • Fixed: now more reliably hits targets at the end of its range.
• Blighted Quiver
  • Ability power ratio on Blight stack detonation increased to (+ 2% AP) per stack from (+ 1% AP).
• Chain of Corruption
  • Missile width increased to 100 from 60.
  • Increased missile visibility.
  • Spread range from primary target to nearby targets increased to 550 from 450.
  • Tendril break range increased to 600 from 550.

V1.0.0.139

• Added May 8th
  • Living Vengeance (Innate)
    • On kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains attack speed. This bonus is larger if the enemy is a champion.
  • Piercing Arrow (Q)
    • Varus readies and then fires a powerful shot that gains extra range and damage the longer he spends preparing to fire.
  • Blighted Quiver (W)
    • Varus' basic attacks deal bonus magic damage and apply Blight. Varus' other abilities detonate Blight, dealing magic damage based on the target's maximum health.
  • Hail of Arrows (E)
    • Varus fires a hail of arrows that deal physical damage and desecrate the ground. Desecrated ground slows enemies' movement speed and reduces their healing and regeneration.
  • Chain of Corruption (Ultimate)
    • Varus flings out a tendril of corruption that immobilizes the first enemy champion hit and then spreads towards nearby uninfected champions, immobilizing them too on contact.

See also

League of Legends Wiki | Champions