Mid · 28 games · NA

VarusMid build & runes · NA

Mid · 4% of games Bot · 75%Top · 21%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+763 gold).

Win rate: 57.1%; ±18.3 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: —; too few games to rank
Pick rate: 0.1%; ban 0.5%
Games: 28; ranked solo/duo

Varus mid wins 57.1% of 28 ranked games in NA. Most players finish Dusk and Dawn first, at about 11:42.

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

Dusk and Dawn 12:10 · 45% · 10 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 13:48 · 36% of games

Item 2 · late game

Shadowflame 20:42 · 5 of 25 games

Runes

Press the Attack · Precision + Resolve 7% of games · 50% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Bow + Health Potion 54% of games · 60% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 36% of games · 50% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Blighted Quiver first 61% of games · 65% 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.

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins43% of games · 12

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below Varus's own win rate (57.1%). Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Varus games

First Baron: 91% against 35%

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

First Baron 35% 91% +56

First tower 47% 69% +23

Rift Herald 50% 70% +20

First blood 53% 62% +8

First Voidgrubs 56% 58% +2

First dragon 64% 53% −11

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

More multikills, more damage to towers

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

More multikills a game1.00 against 0.75 · +33%

More damage to towers9087 against 6922 · +31%

More solo kills a game2.3 against 1.9 · +18%

More deaths a game6.4 against 5.7 · +12%

About average: share of team damage, minions, kill participation.

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 ~11:12

Item 2done ~19:36

Item 3done ~24:30

Item 4done ~31:54

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 Potion60.0%15

Doran's Blade + Health Potion60.0%10

Doran's Helm + Health Potion0.0%2

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:4850.0%10

Mercury's Treads ~13:1280.0%5

Berserker's Greaves ~11:0075.0%4

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash50.0%10

Flash + Barrier44.4%9

Flash + Ghost80.0%5

Skills

Max

E64.7%17

Max

E55.6%9

Start

E55.6%9

Start

Q57.1%7

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Varus dies 2.3 times a game (average 2.2). 54% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 49% for the average mid laner. 37% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.3deaths per game before 14′about average (2.2)

54%involve the enemy junglermore than average (49%)

63%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (65%)

66%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 their half of mid

Ganks: 31% in their half of mid. Collapses: 67% in their half of mid. 1-v-1s: 46% 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 54% (avg 49%)Collapse 9% (avg 16%)1-v-1 37% (avg 35%)

Who gets the kill

Varus Average

Bot laner 5% (avg 7%)Jungler 20% (avg 27%)Support 9% (avg 6%)Mid laner 57% (avg 55%)Top laner 9% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00–7:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Varus Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 5:00 and 9:00. 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: 0.9 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.5 in your half of mid. Overall 1.2 kills per death.

Their half of mid 0.9 K/D 22 / 25

Your half of mid 0.5 K/D 11 / 22

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 34% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 30%). The team wins 64% when Varus is there and 60% when not.

VarusMid build & runes · NA

What most Varus players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 91% against 35%

More multikills, more damage to towers

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 about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit their half of mid

What kills Varus

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00–7:00 and 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