I love Varus. His satyred knees, and vicious level 1 arrow.

He hits pretty hard, right? fuller AD spec, and capitalizes on most support's damage well, his range is reasonable, his late game interesting.

I always enjoy playing Varus he's one of my most reliable ad carries if not my most reliable.

If played well, then yeah he's great. But it's also super easy to shut him down because it's generally easy to dodge his arrow and ultimate.

I think Varus is actually a very weak champion. He almost HAS to build glass cannon since he has such high potential , but that leaves him open to be burst down very, very fast. He's more of a lower ELO champion due to his medium skill cap.

I don't super think that anything more than 1 defense item is viable on most carries. I don't think Varus couldn't afford to buy one defense item.