Varus·Bot Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Varus Bot build, you should take Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick First Strike as your keystone, followed by Cash Back, Biscuit Delivery and Jack Of All Trades in the primary tree, as well as Manaflow Band and Transcendence in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Opportunity as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Edge of Night. For your last 3 items, you should build Manamune, Serylda's Grudge and finish with Youmuu's Ghostblade. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 49.8% winrate over 22 794 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Hail of Blades as your keystone, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm 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 Opportunity as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Edge of Night as a third item. You want to finish the build with Manamune, Serylda's Grudge and Youmuu's Ghostblade. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 50.0% win rate across 6 486 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Varus Bot build in the current patch, try Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells, Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch as your primary rune tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Cosmic Insight as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Opportunity as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Edge of Night as third item. The last 3 options are Manamune, Serylda's Grudge and Youmuu's Ghostblade. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 52.3% win rate over 1 784 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.