Varus

the Arrow of Retribution

TopPatch 16.21Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

44%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

407

Runes

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash
67%43%272
Flash + Barrier
21%46%87
Flash + Ghost
7.4%—30

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
32%45%132
Doran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
28%47%114
Doran's Helm, Health Potion
12%—49

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Experimental Hexplate → Dusk and Dawn → Zhonya's Hourglass
3.9%—16
Statikk Shiv → Guinsoo's Rageblade → Terminus
3.9%—16
Dusk and Dawn → Statikk Shiv → Zhonya's Hourglass
3.7%—15

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
48%43%197
Gluttonous Greaves
12%—48
Boots of Swiftness
11%—45

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

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

68%47%277

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
W	W	W		W	W		W		W
E			E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Q › W › E20% of games36% 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 38,055 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.21 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.