Mid · 29 games · EUW

VarusMid build & runes · EUW

Mid · 3% of games Bot · 68%Top · 29%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+303 gold).

Win rate: 55.2%; ±18.1 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: —; too few games to rank
Pick rate: 0.1%; ban 1.5%
Games: 29; ranked solo/duo

Varus mid wins 55.2% of 29 ranked games in EUW. Most players finish Experimental Hexplate first, at about 11:12.

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

Experimental Hexplate 11:26 · 42% · 10 games

Boots

Gluttonous Greaves 11:42 · 24% of games

Item 2 · late game

Dusk and Dawn 19:06 · 11 of 27 games

Item 3 · late game

Zhonya's Hourglass 22:42 · 5 of 11 games

Runes

Press the Attack · Precision + Resolve 14% of games · 75% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Bow + Health Potion 41% of games · 42% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 38% of games · 82% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Blighted Quiver first 48% of games · 64% wins Skill orders →

When Varus wins

Win rate by game length

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

Ends before 25′50% wins34% of games · 10

Lasts 25′ or more71% wins48% of games · 14

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below Varus's own win rate (55.2%). Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Varus games

First Baron: 100% against 19%

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

First Baron 19% 100% +81

First tower 15% 88% +72

First dragon 23% 81% +58

Rift Herald 20% 74% +54

First Voidgrubs 33% 71% +37

First blood 40% 71% +31

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, fewer assists

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

Fewer control wards a game0.10 against 0.58 · −83%

Fewer assists a game4.5 against 6.2 · −28%

More damage to towers8454 against 7157 · +18%

More multikills a game0.93 against 0.80 · +16%

Less kill participation38% against 44% · −13%

About average: time spent dead, damage, minions, share of team damage, deaths, solo kills, gold.

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 ~10:42

Item 2done ~18:12

Item 3done ~22:42

Item 4done ~25:00

Most common full builds

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

Not enough games against this kind of team yet.

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 Potion41.7%12

Doran's Blade + Health Potion71.4%7

Doran's Helm + Health Potion60.0%5

Boots

Gluttonous Greaves ~11:4285.7%7

Sorcerer's Shoes ~14:5433.3%6

Plated Steelcaps ~12:1850.0%6

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash81.8%11

Flash + Barrier50.0%10

Flash + Teleport33.3%6

Skills

Max

E64.3%14

Max

E41.7%12

Start

E61.5%13

Start

E62.5%8

Dies more than most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Varus dies 2.6 times a game (average 2.3). 49% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 48% for the average mid laner. 33% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.6deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.3)

49%involve the enemy junglerabout average (48%)

67%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (66%)

68%with no teammate nearmore than average (62%)

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 mid

Ganks: 32% in your half of mid. Collapses: 31% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 60% in your half of mid.

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 mid laner

What kills Varus

Kind of death

Varus Average

Gank 49% (avg 48%)Collapse 17% (avg 18%)1-v-1 33% (avg 34%)

Who gets the kill

Varus Average

Bot laner 5% (avg 7%)Jungler 23% (avg 27%)Support 4% (avg 7%)Mid laner 63% (avg 55%)Top laner 5% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 4:00 and 6:00–9:00, then every minute

Varus Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 4:00 and 6:00. 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 mid, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 2.1 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.2 in your half of mid. Overall 1.0 kills per death.

Their half of mid 2.1 K/D 35 / 17

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 5 / 31

The bot-side river 1.6 K/D 11 / 7

Their jungle 1.1 K/D 8 / 7

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 dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 18% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 28%). The team wins 100% when Varus is there and 82% when not.

VarusMid build & runes · EUW

What most Varus players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 100% against 19%

Fewer control wards, fewer assists

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

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Varus's games

Dies more than most mid laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Varus

Ganks come at 4:00 and 6:00–9:00, then every minute

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

Where fights happen

Where fights happen