Varus

the Arrow of Retribution

TopPatch 16.19Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

49%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

799

Runes

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash
58%50%466
Flash + Barrier
24%47%194
Flash + Ghost
12%49%99

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
29%53%232
Doran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
27%47%215
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
14%45%110

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Experimental Hexplate → Dusk and Dawn → Riftmaker
6.9%45%55
Experimental Hexplate → Dusk and Dawn → Zhonya's Hourglass
5.8%—46
Experimental Hexplate → Guinsoo's Rageblade → Terminus
3.1%—25

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
48%51%384
Mercury's Treads
14%50%115
Boots of Swiftness
12%47%98

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Zhonya's Hourglass
5.1%—
Riftmaker
2.3%—
Terminus
2.0%—
Jak'Sho, The Protean
1.9%—

Fifth item

Not enough games yet

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Blighted Quiver → Piercing Arrow → Hail of Arrows

81%50%648

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	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 › E10% of games54% 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 53,272 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.19 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.