Varus·Bot Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Varus Bot build, you should take Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Press the Attack as your keystone, followed by Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, as well as Taste of Blood and Treasure Hunter in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Blade of The Ruined King as your first item, followed by Berserker's Greaves and Guinsoo's Rageblade. For your last 3 items, you should build Terminus, Jak'Sho, The Protean and finish with Guardian Angel. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 50.9% winrate over 13 527 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells, with runes being First Strike as your keystone, Cash Back, Biscuit Delivery and Jack Of All Trades in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Transcendence in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Opportunity as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Manamune as a third item. You want to finish the build with Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge and Youmuu's Ghostblade. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 45.1% win rate across 849 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Varus Bot build in the current patch, try Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells, Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Opportunity as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Manamune as third item. The last 3 options are Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge and Serpent's Fang. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 43.1% win rate over 554 matches played.

Situational Varus Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Varus build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.