Varus

the Arrow of Retribution

TopPatch 16.20Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

51%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

688

Runes

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash
62%49%429
Flash + Barrier
25%54%171
Flash + Ghost
8.4%59%58

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
28%56%194
Doran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
23%47%161
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
21%49%144

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Experimental Hexplate → Dusk and Dawn → Riftmaker
4.4%—30
Experimental Hexplate → Dusk and Dawn → Zhonya's Hourglass
4.4%—30
Experimental Hexplate → Guinsoo's Rageblade → Terminus
3.1%—21

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
49%49%337
Mercury's Treads
14%56%93
Gluttonous Greaves
13%54%89

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Zhonya's Hourglass
5.5%—
Jak'Sho, The Protean
2.6%—

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

82%54%567

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 › E9% of games43% 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 54,302 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.20 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.