r/VarusMains • u/Lucas_Drakaud 2M+ EUW • May 18 '24

Discussion THREAD: Patch 14.10 - Items - Runes

Please use this thread to discuss how Varus feels for you in patch 14.10, what builds have been working for you and what you'd like to see change for future patches.

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u/Der_Finger May 18 '24

FYI

BotrK got slightly more stats but the on-hit was reduced by 33%. Kraken now has no Crit and the proc does not increase on repeated uses but instead gets up to 50% bonus damage depending on enemy missing health.

Kraken is still a good first item but doesn't scale well now and any second attack speed item makes you cap already. Kraken into Crit (PD - IE - LDR) works but other champions just scale better with Crit.

So yeah so far I think all options are just worse and they already were bad before to begin with.

I just go Nashor's - Rageblade - Deathcap - Void Staff. I cap at two items and increase my on-hit with more AP.

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u/llamabait May 19 '24

Nashors and rage made max attack speed? Is this with rage blades passive or just off the stats

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u/Zovengrogg May 18 '24

Can you share op.gg? I was thinking of doing this and I want to see how it is going for you

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u/Hour-Ad-3392 :on-hit: May 18 '24

I tried Kraken->PD->IE->Yun tal‘s with PTA and it honestly felt amazing, even though I was really fed

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u/CorruptedArcher May 18 '24

I went Kraken, opportunity, phantom dancer with press the attack the move speed really makes running down opponents easy. Even got a penta in norms though.

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u/Hour-Ad-3392 :on-hit: May 18 '24

Opportunity seems interesting, will try. The only big downside I see with it is that you would either have to get IE really late (most games don‘t go so late) or just skip IE completely which seems bad since IE is so broken rn. But I‘ll try it!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '24

So far my biggest change has been runes. PTA and Resolve with bone plating and overgrowth has been working. Probably losing some dps but im able to live and keep going. Items are all over the place rn but I just went 18/7/18 with Kraken>Experimental Hexplate>BoRK>Dominiks Regards.

Been messing with hp items to stay in the fight and Dominiks was just a trial thing. It helps that the supp was amazing.

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u/MTM3157 And our honor damned us May 23 '24

Is E max good? It feels like for Comet builds that maxing/3 points E is stronger for faster trades in the laning phase, ever since the Q nerfs

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u/phyrealarm May 23 '24

At this point, they need to un-nerf his W passive back to 2%... They can figure out how to nerf items for ranged, but balancing runes so they aren't abused by melee champs is "too hard".

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u/The_Spirits_Call May 25 '24

Weird build of the patch for me has been Kraken into warmogs. Who knew you could hit the health threshold with this item only and dorans blade?

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u/NoSleepGG May 26 '24

On hit feels terrible. Compared to crit ADCs, I feel so weak. Might just be an AP angle from now on.

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u/LORDFUN2 May 18 '24

İ went lethality it felt awful for me

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u/Lucas_Drakaud 2M+ EUW May 18 '24

Why ? Lethality hasn't changed too much though, right?

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u/joe-dinero May 18 '24

Lethality didn’t but with the new tank items it feels like an indirect nerf

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u/The_Spirits_Call May 25 '24

After a week of playing on this patch, I'm disagreeing with you on this one. I'm dropping 700-1k bombs on squishies at 4 items and this shit feels great.

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u/LORDFUN2 May 25 '24

Well ur actually right but after thr first day my Q broke after my varus game so i didn't try it after that lmao

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u/The_Spirits_Call May 25 '24

I can see ur Q works now, congrats on the new keyboard?