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Varus Build

Mid Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 3,812 gamesUpdated

47.2%win rate0.2%pick1.0%ban

Who counters Varus

How to build Varus

Spellslinger's Shoes→Statikk Shiv→Dusk and Dawn→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spellslinger's Shoes → Statikk Shiv → Dusk and Dawn → Zhonya's Hourglass

47.5% win rate 6% of games 160 games
RunesPrecisionPress the AttackTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de GraceDominationTaste of BloodTreasure Hunter18% of games
SpellsFlashBarrierFlash + Barrier58%
Skills
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Piercing Arrow
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Blighted Quiver
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Hail of Arrows
314151718
Chain of Corruption
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Varus build →
47.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 46.5% over 7,375 gamesPatch 26.21: 47.2% over 3,812 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
47.8%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
1.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
49.2%under 22 min
48.0%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Varus champion portraitM VarusvsKatarina champion portraitM Katarina
8 / 3 / 9

Build

Crimson Lucidity|Voltaic Cyclosword→Edge of Night→Manamune

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

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Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Varus champion portraitM VarusvsYasuo champion portraitM Yasuo
6 / 1 / 6

Build

Gunmetal Greaves|Statikk Shiv→Terminus→Guinsoo's Rageblade

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

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Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Varus champion portraitM VarusvsAnnie champion portraitM Annie
4 / 3 / 5

Build

Swiftmarch|Youmuu's Ghostblade→Manamune→Serpent's Fang

Spells & runes

BarrierFlash|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 46.6% win rate · 18% of games · 524 games
PrecisionPress the AttackTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationTaste of BloodTreasure Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 45.2% win rate · 15% of games · 429 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationCash BackTriple Tonic
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier58%46.5%2,283 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash14%48.5%567 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes43%Gunmetal Greaves18%Chainlaced Crushers12%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 49.6% win rate

Varus build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Dusk and Dawn1st
  2. Zhonya's Hourglass2nd
  3. Void Staff3rd
2% of games that reach a third item take this path44.7% win rate47 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Varus →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 3,897 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
42% · 49.7% win rate
Gunmetal GreavesGunmetal Greaves
17% · 44.1% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
12% · 49.0% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
8% · 48.5% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
7% · 51.8% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
5% · 43.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Dusk and Dawn›Void Staff+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 51.9% win rate · 77 games
  2. Dusk and Dawn+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 44.4% win rate · 72 games
  3. Statikk Shiv›Dusk and Dawn+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 51.6% win rate · 64 games
  4. Statikk Shiv+Spellslinger's Shoes1% of games · 28.3% win rate · 46 games
  5. Void Staff›Dusk and Dawn+Spellslinger's Shoes1% of games · 31.1% win rate · 45 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Varus against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Varus's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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