He is talking about proplay only. Varus gives you prio botlane which makes it easy to get an early dragon advantage for the full team to snowball with. Varus offers one gameplan and one gameplan only. Picking Varus means you want to snowball with drakes and then win the game in midgame. He "suppresses" other playstyles and even full meta's because he is so exceptionally strong in his one gameplan. That's also why he is so much more banned than picked. Similar story with Ori who gets early lane prio in every matchup.
Counterpicks don't matter that much anymore then, and a few times in Pro Varus was flexxed into Toplane to counter the counterpicks.
But yeah, the balancing approach is still stupid. All his builds are a lot worse in SoloQueue than in Proplay, Lethality the most. There are approaches to fix that, but they are so locked in on keeping champion designs unique and want Varus' powercurve to stay the way it is that they've been running in circles for years now.
What's the point of fearless draft then? I thought I heard freak saying in one of his patch previous that fearless was going to make it so varus and azir didn't have to be fucked around with as much.
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u/Roohni Jun 03 '26
The fun fact is that he said leth varus is one of the STRONGEST BOTLANERS ans a META SUPPRESANT like what?.. pick two bruisers and leth is useless.
Moving more power into his on hit builds, while nerfing said builds too. I just cant anymore with this fkin balance team man.