Bot · 174 games · EUW

Varus

Bot · 63% of games Top · 35%

Strongest when games end at 15–20 minutes (59%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−28 gold).

Win rate: 48.9%; ±7.4 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #35 of 50
Pick rate: 2.7%; ban 2.7%
Games: 174; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Varus bot wins 48.9% of 174 ranked games in EUW, rank 35 of 50 bot champions (tier C). Most players finish Statikk Shiv first, at about 11:00.

The build at a glance

What most Varus players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Statikk Shiv 11:01 · 79% · 133 games

Boots

Gluttonous Greaves 11:54 · 49% of games

Item 2

Guinsoo's Rageblade 17:03 · 82% · 93 games

Item 3

Terminus 21:29 · 83% · 58 games

Item 4

Jak'Sho, The Protean 26:30 · 76% · 22 games

Item 5 · late game

Zhonya's Hourglass 28:24 · 7 of 32 games

Item 6 · late game

Guardian Angel 37:24 · 3 of 11 games

Runes

Arcane Comet · Sorcery + Inspiration 12% of games · 57% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Bow + Health Potion 67% of games · 49% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Barrier 69% of games · 43% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Piercing Arrow first 63% of games · 42% wins Skill orders →

When Varus wins

Wins early, fades from 25 minutes

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′51% wins39% of games · 67

Lasts 25′ or more46% wins57% of games · 100

Lanes

Watch out for Draven

Hard Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Varus games

First Baron: 79% against 29%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 29% 79% +50

Rift Herald 32% 71% +38

First tower 29% 67% +38

First blood 37% 61% +24

First dragon 38% 61% +23

First Voidgrubs 48% 50% +2

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Varus plays

Fewer control wards

What stands out (10% or more) against the average bot laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer control wards a game0.36 against 0.44 · −18%

About average: damage, solo kills, kill participation, deaths, damage to towers, multikills, assists, time spent dead, minions, share of team damage, gold, vision.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~11:06

Item 2done ~16:54

Item 3done ~22:12

Item 4done ~26:42

Item 5done ~30:24

Item 6done ~35:06

Most common full builds

Statikk Shiv › Gluttonous Greaves › Guinsoo's Rageblade › Terminus 62.1%29 games

Statikk Shiv › Gluttonous Greaves › Guinsoo's Rageblade › Terminus › Jak'Sho, The Protean 57.9%19 games

Statikk Shiv › Gluttonous Greaves › Guinsoo's Rageblade › Terminus › Zhonya's Hourglass 28.6%7 games

Youmuu's Ghostblade › Boots of Swiftness › Manamune › Edge of Night 40.0%5 games

Statikk Shiv › Berserker's Greaves › Guinsoo's Rageblade › Dusk and Dawn 20.0%5 games

Berserker's Greaves › Statikk Shiv › Guinsoo's Rageblade › Wit's End 50.0%4 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Dusk and Dawn 71%7

Terminus 62%37

Wit's End 60%5

Jak'Sho, The Protean 54%13

Zhonya's Hourglass 50%6

Guinsoo's Rageblade 49%45

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Bow + Health Potion + Health Potion49.1%116

Doran's Helm + Health Potion48.3%29

Doran's Blade + Health Potion50.0%24

Boots

Gluttonous Greaves ~11:5447.7%86

Berserker's Greaves ~9:3038.5%26

Plated Steelcaps ~12:5466.7%18

Summoner spells

Flash + Barrier43.3%120

Exhaust + Flash76.0%25

Flash + Ghost42.9%14

Skills

Max

E41.8%110

Max

E62.5%56

Start

E45.5%66

Start

Q51.7%58

Hard lanes

Watch out for Draven

Easy lanes

Good into Jhin, Tristana, Kalista

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 5 of 7, wins 5 of them

Expected: what Varus's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (12)

Ezreal 44% · 9

Caitlyn 22% · 9

Jinx 33% · 6

Lucian 80% · 5

Kai'Sa 60% · 5

Twitch 33% · 3

Mel 0% · 3

Viktor 33% · 3

Smolder 100% · 3

Aurelion Sol 33% · 3

Zeri 33% · 3

Xayah 0% · 3

Varus vs Jhin · 20 games · Fair sample

Varus does better than expected here

60%winsexpected 49%

+446gold at 15′average −28

+4.9minions at 10′ahead or behind

20%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.20 a game

Gold lead against Jhin Varus's average lead

Against Jhin, Varus is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 58% of games and wins 55% of those. When behind, Varus wins 63%.

Ahead at 15′55% wins11 games

Behind at 15′63% wins8 games

Full Varus vs Jhin page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy support Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Thresh58% · exp. 47% +1119 games

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies more than most bot laners

Before 14 minutes Varus dies 3.2 times a game (average 2.8). 37% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 36% for the average bot laner. 12% are fair 1-v-1s.

3.2deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.8)

37%involve the enemy junglerabout average (36%)

88%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (87%)

38%with no teammate nearabout average (39%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Varus dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

Ganks: 51% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 60% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 42% in your half of bot lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average bot laner

What kills Varus

Kind of death

Varus Average

Gank 37% (avg 36%)Collapse 51% (avg 50%)1-v-1 12% (avg 13%)

Who gets the kill

Varus Average

Bot laner 55% (avg 50%)Jungler 20% (avg 21%)Support 14% (avg 16%)Mid laner 10% (avg 10%)Top laner 2% (avg 2%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00–7:00, then every minute

Varus Peak Average bot laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 5:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Varus; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Varus wins fights

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.7 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.5 in your half of bot lane. Overall 1.0 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.5 K/D 146 / 304

Their half of bot lane 1.7 K/D 280 / 161

The bot-side river 1.5 K/D 60 / 41

Your jungle 1.5 K/D 21 / 14

Their half of mid 2.0 K/D 18 / 9

Their jungle 5.5 K/D 22 / 4

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Varus wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 31% of their team's dragon takes (average bot laner 32%). The team wins 62% when Varus is there and 67% when not.

Leaving laneWorth knowingFirst shows up in mid lane around 14:00 (average 15:00). Bot laners who get there by 14:00 win 54% against 47%; for Varus it is 59% against 37%.

Varus

What most Varus players run

Wins early, fades from 25 minutes

Watch out for Draven

First Baron: 79% against 29%

Fewer control wards

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Draven

Good into Jhin, Tristana, Kalista

Ahead at 15 against 5 of 7, wins 5 of them

Varus does better than expected here

About what you would expect

Varus does worse than expected here

Varus does better than expected here

Varus does better than expected here

Varus does better than expected here

About what you would expect

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Varus's games

Dies more than most bot laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Varus

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00–7:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of mid