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Varus
GameplayVarus is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Abilities
- 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 |  Cast-inhibiting effects
| |
- 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.
- The attacks do not affect structures nor wards.
- 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 : Blighted Quiver's on-hit interaction with parrying effects ( dodge, block, blind).
- 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.
- 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.
- This ability will cast from wherever the caster 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.
Champion skins
- This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Varus (Collection).
One of the ancient darkin, Varus was a deadly killer who loved to torment his foes, driving them almost to insanity before delivering the killing arrow. He was imprisoned at the end of the Great Darkin War, but escaped centuries later in the remade flesh of two Ionian hunters—they had unwittingly released him, cursed to bear the bow containing his bound essence. Varus now seeks out those who trapped him, in order to enact his brutal vengeance, but the mortal souls within still resist him every step of the way.
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Patch history
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- Hail of Arrows
- Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 25% from 30%.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 600 from 530.
- Health growth increased to 105 from 91.
- Armor growth increased to 4.6 from 3.4.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.
- Hail of Arrows
- Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 30% from 40%.
- Living Vengeance
- Bonus attack speed ratio increased to 20% bonus attack speed from 15%.
- Champion bonus attack speed ratio increased to 40% bonus attack speed from 30%.
- Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage increased to 7 / 12 / 17 / 22 / 27 from 7 / 10.5 / 14 / 17.5 / 21.
- V12.5 - March 9th Hotfix
- Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage increased to 7 / 10.5 / 14 / 17.5 / 21 from 7 / 9 / 11 / 13 / 15.
- Chain of Corruption
- Base damage increased to 150 / 250 / 350 from 150 / 200 / 250.
- Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: Charge cancellation VFX has been restored for all skins.
- V11.24 - December 15th Hotfix
- Living Vengeance
- Bonus attack speed duration increased to 5 / 7 / 9 / 11 (based on level) seconds from 5 at all levels.
- Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage increased to 7 / 9 / 11 / 13 / 15 from 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11.
- On-hit AP ratio increased to 30% AP from 25% AP.
- Bonus damage AP ratio per stack increased to 2.5% per 100 AP from 2% per 100 AP.
- Maximum bonus damage AP ratio increased to 7.5% per 100 AP from 6% per 100 AP.
- General
- Updated visual effects.
- Hail of Arrows
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 90% bonus AD from 60%.
- Piercing Arrow
- Cooldown increased to 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds from 16 / 14.5 / 13 / 11.5 / 10.
- Stats
- Base attack damage reduced to 59 from 61.
- Living Vengeance
- Non-champion base bonus attack speed reduced to 10 / 15 / 20% (based on level) from 20% at all levels.
- 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).
- Stats
- Attack damage growth increased to 3.4 from 3.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stats
- Attack speed growth increased to 4% from 3%.
- 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.
- 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.
- Minimum AD ratio reduced to 100% AD from 110% AD.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 530 from 500.
- Health growth increased to 91 from 89.
- Piercing Arrow
- Indicator added to show recast ability timer.
- Chain of Corruption
- Cooldown increased to 130 / 100 / 70 seconds from 110 / 90 / 70.
- 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.
- Bug Fix: When attempting to cast it outside of its maximum range immediately after
- Hail of Arrows
- Now casts at maximum range instead of casting in the targeted area.
- 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.
- 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.
- Blighted Quiver
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the detonation damage was lower than intended.
- Hail of Arrows
- Bug Fix: Slow zone VFX no longer fail to appear if cast from fog of war.
- 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.
- Blighted Quiver
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that allowed his allies to detonate it.
- 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.
- 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%.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 5.5 from 5.424.
- General
- New splash artwork for Original Varus.
- New splash artwork for
- 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.
- Dark Star Varus
- Bug Fix: Blue tendrils no longer flicker during several graphics settings.
- Chain of Corruption
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where hitting it, at its maximum range, wouldn't make it spread through enemies.
- Stats
- Magic resistance growth increased to 0.5 from 0.
- Piercing Arrow
- Cooldown reduction if hitting Blighted enemy champion increased to 4 seconds from 4 − 2.2 (based on cooldown reduction).
- Cooldown reduction if hitting
- Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: Cooldown refund against Blighted targets now properly applies at Piercing Arrow's max distance.
- Bug Fix: Cooldown refund against
- 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.
- Heartseeker Varus
- Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: Now correctly gets audio when hitting an enemy in Fog of War with Piercing Arrow.
- 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.
- Hail of Arrows
- Bug Fix: Restored custom particles for Blight Crystal Varus's Hail of Arrows when the arrows land.
- Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: No longer occasionally deals damage against spell shielded targets.
- Hail of Arrows
- Updated to use new Grievous Wounds - 40% self-healing reduction instead of 50% incoming-healing reduction.
- Updated to use new
- 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
- Piercing Arrow
- Now begins its cooldown at charge start, rather than when the arrow fires.
- Chain of Corruption
- Missle width increased to 120 from 100.
- Mana regeneration per 5 seconds growth stat increased to 0.8 from 0.5
- Piercing Arrow
- Line indicator removed (Now uses range circle again as per previous functionality).
- 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.
- Base armor increased to 17.5 from 13.5.
- Chain of Corruption
- Mana cost reduced to 100 from 120.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stats
- Movement speed increased to 335 from 310.
- 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.
- 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.
Trivia
- Varus was the first champion to be released in Season Two with only one alternative skin, with subsequent champions following this pattern.
- Varus' title "The Arrow of Retribution" strongly resembles Kalista's title "The Spear of Vengeance".
- Varus is, along with Blitzcrank, Caitlyn, Lissandra, Rumble, Sion, Vi, Xerath, and Ziggs, one of the few champions that can apply crowd control on themselves.
- Varus' body style is similar to the one of Solus, the T'Lan leader from the game Breakdown.
- Varus is the first of three dark-themed champions with a light-themed skin, the second being Syndra and the third being Aatrox.
- Of these three, Varus' skin is the only one not of the Justicar theme.
See also
| Cancelled Champions | |
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