Varus·Support Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Varus Support build, you should take Flash and Heal as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Hail of Blades as your keystone, followed by Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm 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 Bloodsong as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Umbral Glaive. For your last 3 items, you should build Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night and finish with Opportunity. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 41.4% winrate over 285 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Varus Support build would be to take Flash and Heal as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Arcane Comet as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Magical Footwear in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Bloodsong, which you should build first, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item and Umbral Glaive as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Youmuu's Ghostblade, Opportunity and Serylda's Grudge. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 43.3% win rate over 127 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Exhaust and Flash as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Arcane Comet as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Magical Footwear in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Zaz'Zak's Realmspike as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Umbral Glaive as a third item. You want to finish the build with Manamune, Edge of Night and Opportunity. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 44.9% win rate across 107 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.