Mid · 27 games

Varus

Mid · 4% of games Bot · 63%Top · 34%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+327 gold).

Win rate: 63.0%; ±18.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: —; too few games to rank
Pick rate: 0.1%; ban 1.4%
Games: 27; ranked solo/duo

Varus mid wins 63.0% of 27 ranked games. Most players finish Statikk Shiv first, at about 11:30.

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 11:51 · 48% · 12 games

Boots

Berserker's Greaves 7:36 · 30% of games

Item 2 · late game

Experimental Hexplate 16:36 · 5 of 25 games

Item 3 · late game

Terminus 23:48 · 6 of 15 games

Runes

Press the Attack · Precision + Resolve 19% of games · 80% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Bow + Health Potion 48% of games · 54% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 41% of games · 64% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Piercing Arrow first 70% of games · 68% 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′63% wins30% of games · 8

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins44% of games · 12

Lanes

No clear counters yet

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

What wins Varus games

First Baron: 100% against 29%

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

First Baron 29% 100% +71

First tower 50% 73% +23

First dragon 50% 73% +23

First Voidgrubs 50% 73% +23

Rift Herald 53% 75% +22

First blood 65% 60% −5

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 game1.11 against 0.74 · +50%

More damage to towers9765 against 6819 · +43%

Fewer control wards a game0.70 against 1.01 · −31%

Fewer assists a game5.0 against 6.2 · −19%

More deaths a game6.4 against 5.5 · +17%

About average: gold, minions.

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 ~11:30

Item 2done ~19:42

Item 3done ~24:24

Item 4done ~27:06

Most common full builds

Statikk Shiv › Berserker's Greaves › Experimental Hexplate › Terminus 75.0%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

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 Potion53.8%13

Doran's Blade + Health Potion66.7%9

Doran's Helm + Health Potion66.7%3

Boots

Berserker's Greaves ~7:3662.5%8

Plated Steelcaps ~14:1866.7%6

Gluttonous Greaves ~10:5475.0%4

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash63.6%11

Flash + Ghost60.0%5

Cleanse + Flash75.0%4

Skills

Max

E68.4%19

Max

E57.1%7

Start

E69.2%13

Start

E50.0%6

Dies more than most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Varus dies 2.7 times a game (average 2.2). 52% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 37% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.7deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.2)

52%involve the enemy junglerabout average (50%)

63%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (67%)

68%with no teammate nearmore than average (61%)

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

Ganked in their half of mid, collapsed on in your half of mid

Ganks: 53% in their half of mid. Collapses: 38% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 48% 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 52% (avg 50%)Collapse 11% (avg 17%)1-v-1 37% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Varus Average

Bot laner 4% (avg 7%)Jungler 21% (avg 28%)Support 7% (avg 7%)Mid laner 66% (avg 54%)Top laner 3% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 4:00 and 7:00–10:00, then every minute

Varus Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 4:00 and 7:00. 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

Where fights happen

Before 14 minutes: 64 kills and 73 deaths.

Their half of mid 0.9 K/D 28 / 30

Your half of mid 0.1 K/D 2 / 26

Their jungle 2.8 K/D 11 / 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 dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 22% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 82% when Varus is there and 82% when not.

Varus

What most Varus players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 100% against 29%

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 more than most mid laners

Ganked in their half of mid, collapsed on in your half of mid

What kills Varus

Ganks come at 4:00 and 7:00–10:00, then every minute

Where fights happen

Where fights happen

Where fights happen