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Varus

Marksman / Mage

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Varus was last nerfed in Patch 6.3 (). Across 21 patches, Varus has received 12 buffs, 5 nerfs, 4 adjustments since release in Patch 1.1.

Abilities
Living VengeanceWR
Passive - Living Vengeance

Innate: Varus becomes elated for 5 / 7 / 9 / 11 seconds upon killing an enemy, gaining 15% / 20% / 25% bonus attack speed as well as bonus attack damage and ability power equal to 10% of his bonus attack speed.

On a champion takedown, the effects are increased to 50% bonus attack speed as well as bonus attack damage and ability power equal to 20% of his bonus attack speed.

Piercing ArrowWR
Ability 1 - Piercing Arrow
Cost: 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 mana
CD: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12
Cast Time: None

Active: Varus charges while being slowed by 20% for up to 4 seconds to increase Piercing Arrow's range and damage over the first 1.5 seconds of the channel.

Minimum Physical Damage: 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 (+ 0% AD)
Maximum Physical Damage: 120 / 210 / 300 / 390 (+ 0% AD)
Minimum Reduced Damage: 26.4 / 46.2 / 66 / 85.8 (+ 0% AD)
Maximum Reduced Damage: 39.6 / 69.3 / 99 / 128.7 (+ 0% AD)

Piercing Arrow can be recast within the duration. If the charge completes without reactivation, Piercing Arrow is cancelled and refunds 50% of the mana cost and 50% of the cooldown.

Recast: Varus fires a piercing arrow in the target direction that deals physical damage to enemies hit. The damage of the arrow is increased by 0% - 50% (based on level), and the arrow's damage is reduced by 0% / 15% / 30% / 45% / 60%.

Piercing Arrow's remaining cooldown is reduced by 4 seconds if the arrow detonates Blighted Quiver on at least one champion.

Blighted QuiverWR
Ability 2 - Blighted Quiver
CD: 25
Cast Time: None

Passive: Varus' basic attacks against enemies will deal bonus magic damage and inflict a stack of Blight on-hit for 6 seconds, refreshing on subsequent hits and stacking up to 3 times. Varus' abilities detonate all Blight stacks on enemies hit.

Bonus Magic Damage: 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 (+ 35% AP)
Bonus Magic Damage per Stack: 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.5% (+ 1.2% per 100 AP) target's maximum health
Bonus Magic Damage at Max Stacks: 9 / 10.5 / 12 / 13.5% (+ 3.6% per 100 AP) target's maximum health
Increased On-Hit Magic Damage: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 (+ 70% AP)

Blight: For each stack consumed, the target is dealt bonus magic damage. The damage against monsters is capped at 120 per stack, up to 360 at maximum stacks. Each stack consumed against a champion or epic monster reduces the remaining cooldowns of basic abilities by 13% total cooldown, up to a 39% cooldown reduction per target.

Active: Varus doubles Blighted Quiver's passive on-hit damage for 6 seconds. His next Piercing Arrow within the same period will be empowered to deal bonus magic damage equal to 6% - 9% (based on level) target's missing health, increased by 0% - 50% (based on level).

Hail of ArrowsWR
Ability 3 - Hail of Arrows
Cost: 80 mana
CD: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10
Cast Time: 0.35

Active: Varus fires a hail of arrows at the target location that land after 0.5 seconds, dealing physical damage to enemies hit.

Physical Damage: 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 (+ 90% bonus AD)
Slow: 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%

The area then becomes desecrated for 4 seconds, slowing enemies within and inflicting them with 40% Grievous Wounds.

Chain of CorruptionWR
Ability 4 - Chain of Corruption
Cost: 100 mana
CD: 75 / 65 / 55
Cast Time: 0.25

Active: Varus unleashes a tendril of corruption in the target direction that infects the first enemy champion hit, dealing magic damage, rooting them for 2 seconds, and revealing them for 4 seconds. They are also inflicted with maximum stacks of Blighted Quiver over 2 seconds.

Magic Damage: 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 80% AP)

Upon impact, the tendril attempts to seek out nearby enemy champions. If a target does not leave the area within 2 seconds, they subsequently become infected as well, taking the same damage and effects. A new tendril is then spread out from the infected target. The infection can spread repeatedly until there are no new targets.

The target does not have to be visible to be caught by the tendril.

Base Stats

Health: 570
Health Per Level: 128
Mana: 390
Mana Per Level: 33
Attack Damage: 54
AD Per Level: 3.6
Attack Speed: 0.83
AS Per Level: 3.2
Armor: 35
Armor Per Level: 4.5
Magic Resist: 30
MR Per Level: 1.4
Movement Speed: 340
Range: 575
Health Regen: 6
HP Regen Per Level: 0.55
Mana Regen: 12
Mana Regen Per Level: 0.5
Patch 6.3Nerf

Living Vengeance

  • Bonus attack speed increased from 10/15/20% (at level 1/6/9) to 15/20/25% (at level 1/6/9).
  • Champion bonus attack speed reduced from 60% to 50%.
  • Bonus attack damage and ability power reduced from 15% of his bonus attack speed to 10%.
  • Champion bonus attack damage and ability power reduced from 30% of his bonus attack speed to 20%.

Blighted Quiver

  • On-hit base damage reduced from 20/30/40/50 to 15/25/35/45.
Patch 6.2eNerf

Stats

  • Base attack damage reduced from 58 to 54.

Blighted Quiver

  • Blight health ratio reduced from 3.5/4/4.5/5% target's maximum health to 3/3.5/4/4.5%.
  • Blight AP health ratio reduced from 1.5% target's maximum health per 100 AP to 1.2%.

Chain of Corruption

  • Cooldown increased from 65/55/45 seconds to 75/65/55.
Patch 6.2bBuff

Stats

  • Base health increased from 570 to 600.
  • Attack damage growth increased from 3.6 to 4.

Piercing Arrow

  • Base damage increased from 70/130/190/250 to 80/140/200/260.
  • AD ratio increased from 100/110/120/130% AD to 110/120/130/140%.

Blighted Quiver

  • Cooldown reduced from 30 seconds to 25.
  • On-hit base damage increased from 15/23/31/39 to 20/30/40/50.
Patch 6.2Change

Varus is currently overperforming when synergizing with certain items—his passive's attack speed scaling often overflows, limiting viable build paths, and his high mixed burst damage makes him difficult to counter. Therefore, we’re aiming to bring him back toward a more traditional marksman role while maintaining multiple viable playstyles.

General

  • Updated ability icons.

Living Vengeance

  • Bonus attack speed reduced from 30% to 10/15/20% (at level 1/6/9).
  • Duration increased from 5/6/7/8 seconds to 5/7/9/11 (at level 1/9/13/15).
  • New effect: Varus will also gain bonus attack damage and ability power equal to 15% of his bonus attack speed, increased to 30% against a champion.

Piercing Arrow

  • Base damage increased from 20/70/120/170 to 70/130/190/250.
  • AD ratio increased from 125% AD at all ranks to 100/110/120/130%.

Blighted Quiver

  • On-hit base damage increased from 12/16/20/24 to 15/23/31/39.
  • On-hit AP ratio increased from 20% AP to 35%.
  • Blight health ratio reduced from 5/5.5/6/6.5% target's maximum health to 3.5/4/4.5/5%.
  • Blight AP health ratio increased from 1% target's maximum health per 100 AP to 1.5%.
  • Piercing Arrow health ratio reduced from 8 to 15% (based on level) target's missing health to 6 to 9% (based on level).
  • Charged damage amplification reduced from 0 to 100% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time) to 0 to 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time).
  • New effect: Each stack consumed against a champion or epic monster reduces the remaining cooldowns of basic abilities by 13% total cooldown, up to a 39% cooldown reduction per target.
  • New effect: Damage against monsters is capped at 120 per stack, up to 360 at maximum stacks.
Patch 6.0Buff

Stats

  • Base health increased from 530 to 570.
  • Armor growth increased from 3.9 to 4.5.
  • Health growth increased from 115 to 128.
  • Magic resistance growth increased from 0.8 to 1.4.
Patch 5.1dBuff

Piercing Arrow

  • AD ratio increased from 115% AD to 125%.
  • Maximum AD ratio increased from 172.5% AD to 187.5%.
Patch 4.4cBuff

Varus has been known to miss the target here and there. We’ve adjusted his arrows to always strike true!

Piercing Arrow

  • Base damage increased from 10/60/110/160 to 20/70/120/170.
  • Maximum base damage increased from 15/90/165/240 to 30/105/180/255.
  • AD ratio increased from 110% AD to 115%.
  • Maximum AD ratio increased from 165% AD to 172.5%.

Blighted Quiver

  • Detonation health ratio per stack increased from 4/4.5/5/5.5% target's maximum health to 5/5.5/6/6.5%.
Patch 4.4Change

General

  • : New voice-over.

Piercing Arrow

  • Bugfix: Fixed a bug that caused the cooldown reduction to apply even when spell shield prevented Blighted Quiver stacks from detonating.
Patch 4.2aNerf

The ability that Varus has to execute foes is too high, so we’re decreasing some of his burst damage.

Blighted Quiver

  • Health ratio per stack reduced from 4.5/5/5.5/6% target's maximum health to 4/4.5/5/5.5%.
  • Detonation AP ratio per stack reduced from 2% per AP to 1% per AP.
Patch 4.2Buff

Stats

  • Base attack range increased from 550 to 575.
  • Base attack speed bonus increased from 20% to 30%.
  • Base movement speed increased from 330 to 340.
  • Attack speed growth increased from 2.2% to 3.2%.
Patch 4.1aNerf

Since the last patch, we’ve seen the win rate of Ability Power Varus become significantly higher than his Attack Damage builds. This time, we’re nerfing him slightly to bring the win rates closer together.

Chain of Corruption

  • AP ratio reduced from 100% AP to 85%.
Patch 4.1Buff

Despite our recent adjustments, Varus is still struggling compared to his peers. We’re giving him another set of buffs that will hopefully show off some of his explosive power.

Blighted Quiver

  • Health ratio per Blight stack increased from 3.5/4/4.5/5% target's maximum health to 4.5/5/5.5/6%.

Chain of Corruption

  • Base damage increased from 150/200/250 to 150/250/350.
  • AP ratio increased from 80% AP to 100%.
Patch 3.5aBuff

Varus hasn’t been hitting the mark as of late. We’re buffing Hail of Arrows and the Attack Speed on Living Vengeance to reward him even more when he gets kills and assists.

Living Vengeance

  • Bonus attack speed increased from 20% to 30%.
  • Champion bonus attack speed increased from 40% to 60%.

Hail of Arrows

  • Bonus AD ratio increased from 60% bonus AD to 90%.
Patch 3.4bBuff

Varus could use a small boost, and the numbers on Blighted Quiver’s active are messy, so we’re addressing both at once by smoothing the numbers out and pushing them up.

Blighted Quiver

  • Missing health ratio increased from 6.5 to 13.5% (based on level) to 8 to 15% (based on level).
Patch 3.4Buff

Recent changes have left Varus weak overall, so we’re giving him some extra damage that should be effective for attack-oriented builds.

Stats

  • Attack damage growth increased from 2.65 to 3.6.
Patch 3.3bBuff

The previous changes to Varus didn’t enable his attack-based builds and caster builds are still the variation of choice for the most part. We’re taking another swing at buffing up his attack centric builds, particularly for those that might want to prioritize putting skill points into Blighted Quiver.

Living Vengeance

  • Duration increased from 5 seconds at all levels to 5/6/7/8.

Blighted Quiver

  • Cooldown reduced from 25 seconds at all ranks to 22/20/18/16.

Hail of Arrows

  • Cooldown reduced from 16/14/12/10 seconds to 13/12/11/10.
Patch 3.3Change

Caster builds have been dominant on Varus for all of Wild Rift’s lifetime, and attack-oriented builds have been much weaker, so we’re making some adjustments to bridge the gap between the two.

Piercing Arrow

  • Cooldown changed from 16/14/12/10 seconds to 15/14/13/12.

Blighted Quiver

  • On-hit base damage increased from 8/12/16/20 to 12/16/20/24.

Chain of Corruption

  • Cooldown reduced from 70/60/50 seconds to 65/55/45.
Patch 2.4Nerf

We are updating the Grievous Wounds (healing reduction) system to have different levels of severity, so some champions that apply it through abilities have been adjusted.

Hail of Arrows

  • Grievous Wounds reduced from 50% to 40%.
Patch 2.2bBuff

Varus could still use a bit more of a nudge to make him stronger in higher skill levels. We are amping up his execute so that players who can capitalize on his Blighted Quiver/Arrow combo are better rewarded.

Stats

  • Base mana increased from 345 to 390.

Blighted Quiver

  • Maximum missing health ratio increased from 9.75 to 20.25% (based on level) of target's missing health to 13 to 27% (based on level). Minimum missing health ratio unchanged.
Patch 2.1aBuff

Varus is just a nudge from being in a really healthy spot. We are amping up his fun and unique ability to help him solidify his identity in the marksman roster.

Piercing Arrow

  • Cooldown reduced from 18/16/14/12 seconds to 16/14/12/10.
Patch 1.1New

Varus added to Wild Rift

No more Mr. Weak Varus. Time to bring this-- blight boy more in line with the other marksmen.

Stats

  • Movement speed increased from 325 to 330.

Blighted Quiver

  • Cooldown reduced from 30 seconds to 25.
  • Buff duration increased from 4 seconds to 6.
  • Health ratio per Blight stack increased from 3/3.5/4/4.5% target's maximum health to 3.5/4/4.5/5%.