Varus·Top Build
Win rate | 48.2% |
Pick rate | 0.4% |
Ban rate | 0.8% |
Matches | 8 658- |
Varus Build
Most Popular
Win Rate 51.6% based on 1 218 matches
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51.6%Highest WR
54.1%Alternative
48.4%Off-Meta
55.9%Top Players ALL
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66.7%Tigerrocks OTP
57.1%Schwazz OTP
47.1%Matchup Specific
K'Sante
51.5%Ambessa
57.6%runes
spells
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Starter Items
Time Target@ 13 sec
Early Items
@ 4 min
Core Items
@ 19 min
Full Build
ability order
W
Q
E
Skills
situational items
Varus Matchups Overview
Varus General information
Varus combos
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The Best Varus Builds, Runes and Items for Top in Emerald +
Most Popular
If you want to use the most popular Varus Top 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 Bone Plating and Overgrowth 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 Nashor's Tooth as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Riftmaker. For your last 3 items, you should build Zhonya's Hourglass, Rabadon's Deathcap and finish with Void Staff. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - Q - E. Right now, this build has 51.6% winrate over 1 218 matches played.
Alternative
If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Lethal Tempo as your keystone, Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity and Cut Down in the primary tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Blade of The Ruined King as your first item, then Berserker's Greaves as a second item and Guinsoo's Rageblade as a third item. You want to finish the build with Terminus, Jak'Sho, The Protean and Wit's End. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - Q - E. This build is currently sitting at a 48.4% win rate across 566 matches played.
Off-Meta
If you want to try an Off-Meta Varus Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells, Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Bone Plating with Overgrowth as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Health Scaling and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Guinsoo's Rageblade as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Hullbreaker as third item. The last 3 options are Terminus, Jak'Sho, The Protean and Zhonya's Hourglass. The ability order for this build is W - Q - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 55.9% win rate over 256 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.
Furthermore, if you want a more detailed breakdown, you should also check out Varus runes page.
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In-depth Build Stats
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Varus Counters - Best and Worst Matchups for Top in Emerald +
Best Matchups
In Patch 14.23 the best possible matchups for Varus Top are:
- vs. Vladimir - 66.7% win rate over 81 games.
- vs. Poppy - 58.0% win rate over 50 games.
- vs. Garen - 57.9% win rate over 140 games.
- vs. Illaoi - 57.0% win rate over 107 games.
- vs. Smolder - 56.8% win rate over 88 games.
Consider picking Varus into these matches to increase your chance to win a game. These are the most popular Top matchups that currently are in favor of Varus.
Worst Matchups
We highly recommend avoiding picking Varus in the current patch into the following Top matchups:
- vs. Trundle - 37.0% win rate over 54 games.
- vs. Cassiopeia - 37.5% win rate over 64 games.
- vs. Wukong - 38.1% win rate over 42 games.
- vs. Urgot - 38.6% win rate over 101 games.
- vs. Kennen - 38.7% win rate over 80 games.
These champions are considered as Varus counters in the current patch, and playing such a matchup will decrease your chances of winning a game.
Additional Notes
If you want to find out more about best and worst matchups, as well as specific matchup statistics, we highly encourage you to check our Varus counters page. Keep in mind that while the champion may counter or be countered, it also comes down to your individual skill, the skill of your opponent, your team, and enemy team compositions.