Varus/LoL/Patch history

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V14.18

• Piercing Arrow
  • Minimum bonus AD ratio reduced to 86.67 / 93.33 / 100 / 106.67 / 113.33% bonus AD from 100 / 106.67 / 113.33 / 120 / 126.67%.
  • Maximum bonus AD ratio reduced to 130 / 140 / 150 / 160 / 170% bonus AD from 150 / 160 / 170 / 180 / 190%.
• Hail of Arrows
  • Bonus AD ratio reduced to 100% bonus AD from 110%.

V14.17

• Piercing Arrow
  • Minimum base damage increased to 60 / 106.67 / 153.33 / 200 / 246.67 from 10 / 46.67 / 83.33 / 120 / 156.67.
    • Maximum base damage increased to 90 / 160 / 230 / 300 / 370 from 15 / 70 / 125 / 180 / 235.
  • Minimum AD ratio changed to 100 / 106.67 / 113.33 / 120 / 126.67% bonus AD from 83.33 / 86.67 / 90 / 93.33 / 96.67% total AD.
    • Maximum AD ratio changed to 150 / 160 / 170 / 180 / 190% bonus AD from 125 / 130 / 135 / 140 / 145% total AD.
• Hail of Arrows
  • Bonus AD ratio increased to 110% bonus AD from 90%.

V14.16

• Piercing Arrow
  • Bug Fix: No longer casts in a different direction from the cursor if used while ending a long distance movement.

V14.15

• Stats
  • Base attack damage increased to 59 from 57.
• Living Vengeance
  • Bonus attack speed increased to 10 / 15 / 20% (based on level) from 10% at all levels.
  • Champion takedown bonus attack speed increased to 50% from 40%.
  • Champion takedown bonus attack damage and ability power increased to 25% bonus attack speed from 15%.
  • Attack speed cap increased to 3.0 from 2.7632.
• Blighted Quiver
  • On-hit base damage reduced to 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 from 7 / 14 / 21 / 28 / 35.

V14.13

• Stats
  • Base attack damage reduced to 57 from 60.
  • Attack speed growth reduced to 3.5% from 4%.
• Living Vengeance
  • New Effect: When Varus kills an enemy, he gains 10% bonus attack speed as well as bonus attack damage and ability power equal to 10% bonus attack speed for 5 / 7 / 9 / 11 (based on level) seconds. This is increased to 40% bonus attack speed and bonus attack damage and ability power equal to 15% bonus attack speed upon scoring a champion takedown. While Living Vengeance's bonus is active, Varus' attack speed cap is increased to 2.7632.
  • Old Effect: When Varus kills an enemy, he gains 10 / 15 / 20% (based on level) (+ 20% − 23.4% (based on level) bonus attack speed) bonus attack speed for 5 / 7 / 9 / 11 (based on level) seconds, increased to 40% (+ 40% − 46.8% (based on level) bonus attack speed) bonus attack speed upon scoring a champion takedown.
• Blighted Quiver
  • On-hit base damage increased to 7 / 14 / 21 / 28 / 35 from 7 / 13 / 19 / 25 / 31.
  • Cooldown refund per stack increased to 13% from 12%.
    • Maximum cooldown reduction increased to 39% from 36%.
  • Piercing Arrow bonus damage changed to 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14% of target's missing health from 6% − 14% (based on level).
    • Maximum Piercing Arrow bonus damage changed to 9 / 12 / 15 / 18 / 21% of target's missing health from 9% − 21% (based on level).
  • Cast grace period during Piercing Arrow increased to 0.85 seconds from 0.25.

V14.4

• Stats
  • Base attack damage reduced to 60 from 62.

V14.3

• Hail of Arrows
  • Bug Fix: Corrected the phantom missile's cast timing to properly coincide with the VFX, which would previously break spell shields earlier than expected.

V13.22

• Piercing Arrow
  • Bug Fix: Cast indicator no longer always displays the line indicator even if the setting was disabled.

V13.21

• Blighted Quiver
  • On-hit base damage increased to 7 / 13 / 19 / 25 / 31 from 7 / 12 / 17 / 22 / 27.
  • Bug Fix: Buff timer VFX is now displayed clearly.
• Hail of Arrows
  • Slow increased to 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% from 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45%.

V13.20

• Piercing Arrow
  • Undocumented/New Effect: Cast indicator now includes a line for the arrow.

V13.18

• General
  • Updated ability icons.

V13.16

• General
  • Bug Fix: Several issues with voice line playback have been resolved.
• Cosmic Hunter Varus
  • Piercing Arrow
    • Bug Fix: SFX for the cast no longer plays even if the cast did not go off.

V13.14

• General
  • Bug Fix: Several issues with voice line playback have been corrected.

V13.13

• General
  • Updated voice over.
• Blighted Quiver
  • On-hit AP ratio increased to 35% AP from 30% AP.
  • Detonation AP ratio per stack reduced to 1.5% per 100 AP from 2.5% per 100 AP.
    • Detonation maximum AP ratio reduced to 4.5% per 100 AP from 7.5% per 100 AP.

V13.10

• Piercing Arrow
  • Bug Fix: Hit VFX against minions and non-epic jungle monsters on Conqueror Varus, Infernal Varus, PROJECT: Varus, and Cosmic Hunter Varus is now properly displayed.

V13.4

• Blighted Quiver
  • Bug Fix: Now properly displays the VFX of its stacks on enemies even if they briefly left vision.

V13.3

• Hail of Arrows
  • Grievous Wounds strength increased to 40% from 25%.
  • Bug Fix: Effect is now fully nullified if the main missile collides with projectile-interception effects, rather than triggering at the location of impact.

V12.14

• Stats
  • Base attack damage increased to 62 from 59.
• Piercing Arrow
  • Bug Fix: VFX no longer stop rendering after casting Hail of Arrows.

V12.11

• Hail of Arrows
  • Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 25% from 30%.

V12.10

• 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%.

V12.9

• Living Vengeance
  • Bonus attack speed ratio on champion takedown increased to 40% − 46.8% (based on level) bonus attack speed from 30% − 35.1% (based on level).
  • Bonus attack speed ratio on non-champion kill increased to 20% − 23.4% (based on level) bonus attack speed from 15% − 17.55% (based on level).
• 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.

V12.3

• 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.
  • Detonation AP ratio per stack increased to 2.5% per 100 AP from 2% per 100 AP.
    • Detonation maximum AP ratio increased to 7.5% per 100 AP from 6% per 100 AP.

V11.24

• General
  • Updated visual effects.

V11.22

• Hail of Arrows
  • Bonus AD ratio increased to 90% bonus AD from 60%.

V11.19

• Piercing Arrow
  • Cooldown increased to 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds from 16 / 14.5 / 13 / 11.5 / 10.

V11.18

• Stats
  • Base attack damage reduced to 59 from 61.
• Living Vengeance
  • Base bonus attack speed on non-champion kill reduced to 10 / 15 / 20% (based on level) from 20% at all levels.

V11.12

• Blighted Quiver
  • Active damage modifier reduced to 0% − 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time) from 0% − 80% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time).
    • Maximum Piercing Arrow 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
  • Active damage modifier increased to 0% − 80% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time) from 0% − 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time).
    • Maximum Piercing Arrow 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: Consuming Blight with Piercing Arrow no longer reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.
  • New Effect: Blight consumed by Piercing Arrow now increases the detonation damage by 0% − 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time).
  • New Effect: When Piercing Arrow is fully charged, all damaging effects triggered by it will now display critical strike impact text.
• Blighted Quiver
  • On-hit base 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, up to 36% at 3 stacks detonated. This is further increased by 0% − 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time), for a combined possible cooldown reduction of 36% − 54%.
• Chain of Corruption
  • New Effect: Now snaps to face the target direction at the 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%.
• Living Vengeance
  • Bonus attack speed ratio on champion takedown increased to 30% − 35.1% (based on level) bonus attack speed from 30% bonus attack speed from non-growth sources at all levels.
  • Bonus attack speed ratio on non-champion kill increased to 15% − 17.55% (based on level) bonus attack speed from 15% bonus attack speed from non-growth sources at all levels.

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 damage increased to 6% − 14% (based on level) of the target's missing health 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14% (based on level) of the target's missing health from 6% − 10% (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.

V8.17

• 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
  • On-hit base 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 non-growth sources from 50%.
  • Bonus attack speed ratio on minion or monster kill reduced to 15% bonus attack speed from non-growth sources from 25%.
• Blighted Quiver
  • On-hit base damage reduced to 5 / 9 / 13 / 17 / 21 from 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 / 26.
  • New Active:
    • Varus' next Piercing Arrow deals 6% − 10% (based on level) of the target's missing health bonus magic damage, increased by 0% − 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time) for a maximum of 9% − 15% (based on level) of the target's missing health. This damage is capped at 360 against monsters.
    • Cooldown: 40 seconds.
    • This 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 - March 10th 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 from non-growth sources.
  • 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 from non-growth sources.

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

• Stats
  • Mana regeneration growth 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

• Stats
  • 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