Varus
the Arrow of Retribution
Win rate
51%
Pick rate
6%
Ban rate
3%
Games
228
Runes
Press the Attack
Resolve
14%—33Press the Attack
Resolve
8.3%—19Press the Attack
Resolve7.9%—18
Summoner spells
- Exhaust + Flash
56%52%128 - Flash + Barrier
22%50%50 - Flash + Ghost
18%—40
Starting items
- Doran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
34%44%77 - Doran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion27%57%61
- Doran's Blade, Health Potion
13%—30
Core build
No three-item core has enough games behind it yet.
Boots
- Plated Steelcaps
49%50%112 - Boots of Swiftness
14%—32 - Gluttonous Greaves
13%—30
Later items
Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.
Abilities
W
Q
EMax order·Blighted Quiver → Piercing Arrow → Hail of Arrows
Level by level
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| W | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| E | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
 R | R | R | R |
- Q › W › E11% of games— win
Matchups
No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.
Counted from 11,768 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.17 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.