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PCVarus was last adjusted in Patch 26.5 (). Across 81 patches, Varus has received 29 buffs, 13 nerfs, 38 adjustments since release in Patch 1.0.0.139.
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Patch 26.5change
Oh, Varus. Look, canonically you’re kinda three people at once, so having three times the balance changes of other champions is only fair, right? We’re nerfing Varus’s lethality build as it’s the most pro-dominant ADC in the current patch. However, because on-hit Varus in bot lane is weak, we’re compensating AD on-hit Varus to keep that build afloat.
Piercing Arrow
- Maximum base damage reduced to 80/150/220/290/360 from 80/160/240/320/400.
- Maximum bonus AD ratio changed to 150% bonus AD at all ranks from 130/140/150/160/170%.
Blighted Quiver
- New Effect: On-hit damage now scales with 15% bonus AD.
Patch 26.3nerf
Last patch's Varus buffs heavily overshot our target and has resulted in him becoming one of the game's strongest top laners as well. We're sorry for the inaccurate tuning and now that we've got more room to work with, we're looking to weaken his top lane performance as much as possible by rendering him more susceptible to all-ins, reducing his affinity for the top lane role quest, and weakening his top-specific build of AP and maxing W first.
Stats
- Armor growth reduced 4 from 4.6.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit AP ratio reduced to 25% AP from 35% AP.
- AP ratio per stack reduced to 1.3% per 100 AP from 1.5%.
Patch 26.2buff
Varus isn’t doing very well in the new season so we’re here to lift up his two primary builds, on-hit and AD caster.
Piercing Arrow
- Maximum base damage increased to 80/160/240/320/400 from 80/150/220/290/360.
- Minimum base damage increased to 53.33/106.66/160/213.33/266.66 from 53.33/100/146.67/193.33/240.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage increased to 8/17/26/35/44 from 6/14/22/30/38.
Patch 25.16nerf
Q damage decreased. W damage increased late. E damage decreased. Bugfix.
Piercing Arrow
- Minimum base damage reduced to 53.33/100/146.67/193.33/240 from 60/106.67/153.33/200/246.67.
- Maximum base damage reduced to 80/150/220/290/360 from 90/160/230/300/370.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage increased to 6/14/22/30/38 from 6/12/18/24/30.
Hail of Arrows
- Base damage reduced to 60/90/120/150/180 from 60/100/140/180/220.
- Bonus AD ratio reduced to 90% bonus AD from 100%.
Chain of Corruption
- Bug Fix: Now correctly consumes Blight stacks on targets it spreads to.
Patch 25.7change
Hail of Arrows
- Bug Fix: Resolved some inconsistencies within the tooltip.
Patch 25.S1.3buff
Living Vengeance
- Attack speed cap increased to 3.33 from 3.0.
Blighted Quiver
- Bug Fix: In the floating text display, now uses the proper enhanced magic damage icon when Blight is detonated by a fully charged Piercing Arrow, instead of the magic critical strike icon.
- Bug Fix: In the floating text display, now uses the proper enhanced magic damage icon for the active's damage applied to a fully charged Piercing Arrow, instead of the magic critical strike icon.
Patch 25.S1.1change
Base mana decreased. Q mana cost decreased. W damage increased. E mana cost increased.
Stats
- Base mana reduced to 320 from 360.
Piercing Arrow
- Mana cost reduced to 50/55/60/65/70 from 65/70/75/80/85.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage changed to 6/12/18/24/30 from 8/13/18/23/28.
Hail of Arrows
- Mana cost increased to 90 from 80.
Patch 14.22buff
W damage increased.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage increased to 8/13/18/23/28 from 5/10/15/20/25.
Patch 14.18nerf
Q and E damage decreased.
Piercing Arrow
- Minimum bonus AD ratio reduced to 86.67/93.33/100/106.67/113.33% bonus AD from 100/106.67/113.33/120/126.67%.
- Maximum bonus AD ratio reduced to 130/140/150/160/170% bonus AD from 150/160/170/180/190%.
Hail of Arrows
- Bonus AD ratio reduced to 100% bonus AD from 110%.
Patch 14.17buff
Q max damage increased. E damage increased.
Piercing Arrow
- Minimum base damage increased to 60/106.67/153.33/200/246.67 from 10/46.67/83.33/120/156.67.
- Maximum base damage increased to 90/160/230/300/370 from 15/70/125/180/235.
- Minimum AD ratio changed to 100/106.67/113.33/120/126.67% bonus AD from 83.33/86.67/90/93.33/96.67% total AD.
- Maximum AD ratio changed to 150/160/170/180/190% bonus AD from 125/130/135/140/145% total AD.
Hail of Arrows
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 110% bonus AD from 90%.
Patch 14.16change
Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: No longer casts in a different direction from the cursor if used while ending a long distance movement.
Patch 14.15buff
Base AD increased. Passive Attack Speed bonuses increased. W on-hit damage decreased.
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 59 from 57.
Living Vengeance
- Bonus attack speed increased to 10/15/20% (at level 1/7/13) from 10% at all levels.
- Champion takedown bonus attack speed increased to 50% from 40%.
- Champion takedown bonus attack damage and ability power increased to 25% bonus attack speed from 15%.
- Attack speed cap increased to 3.0 from 2.7632.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage reduced to 5/10/15/20/25 from 7/14/21/28/35.
Patch 14.13change
Base AD and AS growth decreased. Passive reworked. W damage and basic ability refund increased. W cast lockout on Q increased.
Stats
- Base attack damage reduced to 57 from 60.
- Attack speed growth reduced to 3.5% from 4%.
Living Vengeance
- New Effect: When Varus kills an enemy, he gains 10% bonus attack speed as well as bonus attack damage and ability power equal to 10% bonus attack speed for 5/7/9/11 seconds. This is increased to 40% bonus attack speed and bonus attack damage and ability power equal to 15% bonus attack speed upon scoring a champion takedown. While Living Vengeance's bonus is active, Varus' attack speed cap is increased to 2.7632.
- Old Effect: When Varus kills an enemy, he gains 10/15/20% (+ 20 to 23.4% (based on level) bonus attack speed) bonus attack speed for 5/7/9/11 seconds, increased to 40% (+ 40 to 46.8% (based on level) bonus attack speed) bonus attack speed upon scoring a champion takedown.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage increased to 7/14/21/28/35 from 7/13/19/25/31.
- Cooldown refund per stack increased to 13% from 12%.
- Maximum cooldown reduction increased to 39% from 36%.
- Piercing Arrow bonus damage changed to 6/8/10/12/14% of target's missing health from 6/8/10/12/14%.
- Maximum Piercing Arrow bonus damage changed to 9/12/15/18/21% of target's missing health from 9/12/15/18/21%.
- Cast grace period during Piercing Arrow increased to 0.85 seconds from 0.25.
Patch 14.3change
Hail of Arrows
- Bug Fix: Corrected the phantom missile's cast timing to properly coincide with the VFX, which would previously break spell shields earlier than expected.
Patch 13.22change
Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: Cast indicator no longer always displays the line indicator even if the setting was disabled.
Patch 13.21buff
W damage increased. E slow effect increased.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage increased to 7/13/19/25/31 from 7/12/17/22/27.
- Bug Fix: Buff timer VFX is now displayed clearly.
Hail of Arrows
- Slow increased to 30/35/40/45/50% from 25/30/35/40/45%.
Patch 13.20change
Piercing Arrow
- Undocumented/New Effect: Cast indicator now includes a line for the arrow.
Patch 13.18change
General
- Updated ability icons.
Patch 13.16change
General
- Bug Fix: Several issues with voice line playback have been resolved.
Cosmic Hunter
- Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: SFX for the cast no longer plays even if the cast did not go off.
Patch 13.14change
General
- Bug Fix: Several issues with voice line playback have been corrected.
Patch 13.13change
W on-hit magic damage increased, damage per Blight stack decreased.
General
- Updated voice over.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit AP ratio increased to 35% AP from 30% AP.
- Detonation AP ratio per stack reduced to 1.5% per 100 AP from 2.5% per 100 AP.
- Detonation maximum AP ratio reduced to 4.5% per 100 AP from 7.5% per 100 AP.
Patch 13.10change
Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: Hit VFX against minions and non-epic jungle monsters on Conqueror, Infernal, PROJECT, and Cosmic Hunter is now properly displayed.
Patch 13.4change
Blighted Quiver
- Bug Fix: Now properly displays the VFX of its stacks on enemies even if they briefly left vision.
Patch 13.3buff
Hail of Arrows
- Grievous Wounds strength increased to 40% from 25%.
- Bug Fix: Effect is now fully nullified if the main missile collides with projectile-interception effects, rather than triggering at the location of impact.
Patch 12.14buff
Base AD increased.
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 62 from 59.
Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: VFX no longer stop rendering after casting Hail of Arrows.
Patch 12.11nerf
Hail of Arrows
- Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 25% from 30%.
Patch 12.10buff
Stats
- Base health increased to 600 from 530.
- Health growth increased to 105 from 91.
- Armor growth increased to 4.6 from 3.4.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.
Hail of Arrows
- Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 30% from 40%.
Patch 12.9buff
Passive attack speed gained on minion and champion kills increased. W magic damage on-hit increased.
Living Vengeance
- Bonus attack speed ratio on champion takedown increased to 40 to 46.8% (based on level) bonus attack speed from 30 to 35.1% (based on level).
- Bonus attack speed ratio on non-champion kill increased to 20 to 23.4% (based on level) bonus attack speed from 15 to 17.55% (based on level).
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage increased to 7/12/17/22/27 from 7/10.5/14/17.5/21.
Patch 12.3change
Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: Charge cancellation VFX has been restored for all skins.
Patch 11.24change
General
- Updated visual effects.
Patch 11.22buff
E damage ratio increased.
Hail of Arrows
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 90% bonus AD from 60%.
Patch 11.19nerf
Q cooldown increased.
Piercing Arrow
- Cooldown increased to 16/15/14/13/12 seconds from 16/14.5/13/11.5/10.
Patch 11.18nerf
Base AD decreased. Passive bonus AS decreased early but increases with levels.
Stats
- Base attack damage reduced to 59 from 61.
Living Vengeance
- Base bonus attack speed on non-champion kill reduced to 10/15/20% from 20% at all levels.
Patch 11.12nerf
W maximum bonus damage decreased.
Blighted Quiver
- Active damage modifier reduced to 0 to 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time) from 0 to 80% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time).
- Maximum Piercing Arrow bonus damage reduced to 9/12/15/18/21% of the target's missing health from 10.8/14.4/18/21.6/25.2%.
Patch 11.7buff
Base attack damage growth increased.
Stats
- Attack damage growth increased to 3.4 from 3.
Patch 11.4buff
W empowered bonus damage based on Q channel time increased.
Blighted Quiver
- Active damage modifier increased to 0 to 80% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time) from 0 to 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time).
- Maximum Piercing Arrow bonus damage increased to 10.8/14.4/18/21.6/25.2% of the target's missing health from 9/12/15/18/21%.
Patch 11.2buff
Base mana growth increased. R cooldown decreased early.
Stats
- Mana growth increased to 40 from 33.
Chain of Corruption
- Cooldown reduced to 100/80/60 seconds from 120/90/60.
Patch 10.24change
Q Blight detonation cooldown reduction removed; damage from Blight effects detonated with Q are now increased by the amount of time Varus charges it for, up to 50%; Q now shows crit text when fully charged. W bonus damage reduced; detonating a Blight stack on enemy champions and Epic Monsters now reduces all basic cooldowns by 12% of the max cooldown per stack. R now snaps Varus to face the target direction on start of cast; missile speed reduced.
Piercing Arrow
- Removed: Consuming Blight with Piercing Arrow no longer reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.
- New Effect: Blight consumed by Piercing Arrow now increases the detonation damage by 0 to 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time).
- New Effect: When Piercing Arrow is fully charged, all damaging effects triggered by it will now display critical strike impact text.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage reduced to 7/8/9/10/11 from 7/10.5/14/17.5/21.
- New Effect: Detonating Blight against champions and epic monsters now reduces his basic ability cooldowns by 12% per stack, up to 36% at 3 stacks detonated. This is further increased by 0 to 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time), for a combined possible cooldown reduction of 36 to 54%.
Chain of Corruption
- New Effect: Now snaps to face the target direction at the start of cast.
- Missile speed reduced to 1500 from 1950.
Patch 10.20buff
E base damage increased. R cooldown decreased.
Hail of Arrows
- Base damage increased to 60/100/140/180/220 from 50 to to 210.
Chain of Corruption
- Cooldown reduced to 120/90/60 seconds from 130/100/70.
Patch 10.17buff
Base AS growth increased.
Stats
- Attack speed growth increased to 4% from 3%.
Living Vengeance
- Bonus attack speed ratio on champion takedown increased to 30 to 35.1% (based on level) bonus attack speed from 30% bonus attack speed from non-growth sources at all levels.
- Bonus attack speed ratio on non-champion kill increased to 15 to 17.55% (based on level) bonus attack speed from 15% bonus attack speed from non-growth sources at all levels.
Patch 10.14nerf
Q maximum bonus damage ratio now scales. E base damage decreased early.
Piercing Arrow
- Maximum AD ratio reduced to 125/130/135/140/145% AD from 150% AD at all ranks.
- Minimum AD ratio reduced to 83.33/86.67/90/93.33/96.67% AD from 100% AD at all ranks.
Hail of Arrows
- Base damage reduced to 50/90/130/170/210 from 70/105/140/175/210.
Patch 10.12nerf
Base attack damage growth decreased. Q damage ratio decreased.
Stats
- Attack damage growth reduced to 3 from 3.11.
Piercing Arrow
- Minimum AD ratio reduced to 100% AD from 110% AD.
- Maximum AD ratio reduced to 150% AD from 165% AD.
Patch 10.11buff
Stats
- Base health increased to 530 from 500.
- Health growth increased to 91 from 89.
Patch 10.8nerf
R cooldown increased.
Piercing Arrow
- Indicator added to show recast ability timer.
Chain of Corruption
- Cooldown increased to 130/100/70 seconds from 110/90/70.
Patch 10.6change
Hail of Arrows
- Bug Fix: When attempting to cast it outside of its maximum range immediately after Flash, the ability's position will now properly update and cast at its post-Flash max range.
Patch 10.5change
Hail of Arrows
- Now casts at maximum range instead of casting in the targeted area.
Patch 10.1change
Q cooldown and Blight cooldown refund decreased.
Piercing Arrow
- Cooldown reduced to 18/16/14/12/10 from 20/18/16/14/12.
- Blight stack detonation cooldown reduction reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
Patch 9.20buff
Base AD increased; rounding out other stats.
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 61 from 59.
- Base mana regeneration increased to 8 from 7.34.
- Base mana reduced to 360 from 360.48.
- Base health increased to 500 from 499.
Patch 9.4change
Blighted Quiver
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the detonation damage was lower than intended.
Patch 9.1change
Hail of Arrows
- Bug Fix: Slow zone VFX no longer fail to appear if cast from Fog of War.
Patch 8.24bbuff
Blighted Quiver
- Active damage increased to 6/8/10/12/14% (at level 1/4/7/10/13) of the target's missing health 6/8/10/12/14% (at level 1/4/7/10/13) of the target's missing health from 6/7/8/9/10% (at level 1/4/7/10/13).
Chain of Corruption
- Base damage increased to 150/200/250 from 100/175/250.
Patch 8.24change
Blighted Quiver
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that allowed his allies to detonate it.
Patch 8.17change
Stats
- Base health reduced to 499 from 549.
- Health growth increased to 89 from 86.
Patch 8.13buff
Piercing Arrow
- Minimum AD ratio increased to 110% AD from 100% AD.
- Maximum AD ratio increased to 165% AD from 150% AD.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage increased to 7/10.5/14/17.5/21 from 5/9/13/17/21.
- Health ratio per stack increased to 3/3.5/4/4.5/5% of target's maximum health from 2/2.75/3.5/4.25/5%.
Patch 8.11change
Stats
- Base health increased to 549 from 537.76.
- Health growth increased to 86 from 82.
- Base armor reduced to 27 from 32.
- Base health regeneration reduced to 3.5 from 5.5.
- Base attack damage reduced to 59 from 63.
- Attack damage growth increased to 3.11 from 2.41.
Patch 8.9change
Blighted Quiver
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the basic attack played the base skin's sound effects instead of those for whatever skin was in use.
- Bug Fix: Unique SFX have been restored for Varus and all skins.
Patch 8.8change
Living Vengeance
- Bonus attack speed ratio on champion takedown reduced to 30% bonus attack speed from non-growth sources from 50%.
- Bonus attack speed ratio on minion or monster kill reduced to 15% bonus attack speed from non-growth sources from 25%.
Blighted Quiver
- On-hit base damage reduced to 5/9/13/17/21 from 10/14/18/22/26.
- New Active:
- Varus' next Piercing Arrow deals 6/7/8/9/10% (at level 1/4/7/10/13) of the target's missing health bonus magic damage, increased by 0 to 50% (based on Piercing Arrow's charge time) for a maximum of 9/10.5/12/13.5/15% (at level 1/4/7/10/13) of the target's missing health. This damage is capped at 360 against monsters.
- Cooldown: 40 seconds.
- This damage is dealt after the damage of Piercing Arrow.
Patch 8.3buff
Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 5.5 from 5.424.
Patch 7.22buff
Hail of Arrows
- Base damage increased to 70/105/140/175/210 from 45/80/115/150/185.
Dark Star
- Bug Fix: Shields now follow his model during his recall animation.
Patch 7.19change
Dark Star
- Bug Fix: Blue tendrils no longer flicker during several graphics settings.
Patch 7.13change
Chain of Corruption
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where hitting it, at its maximum range, wouldn't make it spread through enemies.
Patch 7.6buff
Piercing Arrow
- Cooldown reduction if hitting Blighted Quiver enemy champion increased to 4 seconds from 4 to 2.2 (based on cooldown reduction).
Patch 7.5change
Piercing Arrow
- Maximum AD ratio reduced to 150% AD from 165% AD.
- Cooldown increased to 20/18/16/14/12 seconds from 16/14/12/10/8.
- New Effect: Cooldown is now reduced by 4 to 1.75 (based on cooldown reduction) seconds if the arrow detonates Blighted Quiver stacks from at least one enemy champion.
Blighted Quiver
- Undocumented: Tooltip now indicates maximum damage per stack against monsters.
Patch 7.4change
Heartseeker
- Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: Now correctly gets audio when hitting an enemy in Fog of War with Piercing Arrow.
Patch 6.24change
Living Vengeance
- Duration on champion kills reduced to 5 seconds from 6.
- New Effect: Bonus attack speed from champion kills now scales with 50% bonus attack speed from non-growth sources.
- Duration on non-champion kills increased to 5 seconds from 3.
- New Effect: Bonus attack speed from non-champion kills now scales with 25% bonus attack speed from non-growth sources.
Patch 6.13change
Hail of Arrows
- Bug Fix: Restored custom particles for Blight Crystal Varus's Hail of Arrows when the arrows land.
Patch 6.10change
Piercing Arrow
- Bug Fix: No longer occasionally deals damage against spell shielded targets.
Patch 6.1change
Hail of Arrows
- Updated to use new Grievous Wounds - 40% self-healing reduction instead of 50% incoming-healing reduction.
Patch 5.5change
Piercing Arrow
- Cooldown now begins on the first cast instead of when the arrow is fired.
Patch 5.3buff
Chain of Corruption
- Missile width increased to 120 from 100.
Patch 4.21buff
Stats
- Mana regeneration growth increased to 0.8 from 0.5.
Patch 4.16change
Piercing Arrow
- Line indicator removed (Now uses range circle again as per previous functionality).
Patch 4.13buff
Piercing Arrow
- Now shows a line indicator in addition to circle indicator while charging.
Chain of Corruption
- Cooldown reduced to 110/90/70 seconds from 120/105/90 seconds.
Patch 4.5buff
Stats
- Base armor increased to 17.5 from 13.5.
Patch 3.13buff
Chain of Corruption
- Mana cost reduced to 100 from 120.
Patch 3.8nerf
Piercing Arrow
- Fixed a bug where casting Piercing Arrow while targeting an enemy would cause Varus to stop moving.
Hail of Arrows
- Slow refresh rate reduced to 0.25 seconds.
Patch 3.7change
Stats
- Base movement speed reduced to 330 from 335.
Piercing Arrow
- Minimum damage increased to 10/47/83/120/157 from 10/43/77/110/143.
- Maximum damage increased to 15/70/125/180/235 from 15/65/115/165/215.
- Improved hit detection at the end of the missile.
Hail of Arrows
- Damage reduced to 65/100/135/170/205 from 65/105/145/185/225.
Chain of Corruption
- Improved hit detection at the end of the missile.
Patch 1.0.0.145buff
Piercing Arrow
- Fixed: Piercing Arrow no longer sometimes fires from a point above his bow.
- Fixed: Piercing Arrow now more reliably hits targets at the end of its range.
Blighted Quiver
- Ability power ratio on Blight stack detonation increased to 0.02 per stack from 0.01.
Chain of Corruption
- Missile width increased to 100 from 60.
- Increased missile visibility.
- Spread range from primary target to nearby targets increased to 550 from 450.
- Tendril break range increased to 600 from 550.
- Now will continue to creep from corpses of those affected while alive, rather than fizzling. This includes targets dying to its initial damage.
Varus added to League of Legends
Living Vengeance (Innate)
- On kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains attack speed. This bonus is larger if the enemy is a champion.
Piercing Arrow (Q)
- Varus readies and then fires a powerful shot that gains extra range and damage the longer he spends preparing to fire.
Blighted Quiver (W)
- Varus' basic attacks deal bonus magic damage and apply Blight. Varus' other abilities detonate Blight, dealing magic damage based on the target's maximum health.
Hail of Arrows (E)
- Varus fires a hail of arrows that deal physical damage and desecrate the ground. Desecrated ground slows enemies' movement speed and reduces their healing and regeneration.
Chain of Corruption (Ultimate)
- Varus flings out a tendril of corruption that immobilizes the first enemy champion hit and then spreads towards nearby uninfected champions, immobilizing them too on contact.