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Varus C Tier ARAM Mayhem Build

Varus · the Arrow of Retribution

MarksmanMage 46.41% WR 9.94% PR Patch: 26.10

Varus is C tier in ARAM: Mayhem patch 26.10 with a 46.41% win rate. This guide covers their ARAM build, augment picks, and Mayhem-specific synergies.

Best Augments for Varus

Dual Wield 58.64%

Fan The Hammer 56.40%

Critical Missile 62.07%

Skilled Sniper 51.38%

Upgrade Collector 56.31%

Augment Combos for Varus

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Master of Duality + Adapt — W's AP scaling enables tank deletes; high AS pairs perfectly with Marksmage stacks, with double-pen Lethal Tempo bonus. Autos benefit from Marksmage's AP scaling; build Runaan's for fast MoD stacks. W passive's AP-scaling on-hit also scales with this build's AS.

Ethereal Weapon S+

Varus W stacks up to 3 layers of passive on enemies for max-HP magic damage — at ~600 AP, 3 stacks = 100% HP magic damage. Need magic pen. Max W, level E and Q evenly with priority on E. Forge: magic pen > AD (w/ Adapt) > AP > MS. Ethereal Weapon + Nashor's lets ability damage proc passive twice. Weave autos: aq, aw, ar, wq. W detonation damage scales with Q charge time (up to +50%). W active adds bonus damage — max damage = R, W, max-charge Q to detonate 3 stacks.

Varus ARAM Mayhem Build & Augments

Mayhem-specific augment picks, synergies, and meta data for Varus in patch 26.10.

Skill Priority

Data date: 20260521

Q>E>W Pick Rate: 38.55% Win Rate: 45.99%

Q W E Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 12.99% Win Rate: 45.95%

E W Q Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 1.58% Win Rate: 45.69%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q E R E E E W Pick Rate: 1.48% Win Rate: 46.17%

Q>W>E Pick Rate: 26.20% Win Rate: 45.90%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R W W E E Pick Rate: 9.05% Win Rate: 45.73%

Q W E Q Q R Q E Q W R W W W E Pick Rate: 1.20% Win Rate: 46.01%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R E W W E Pick Rate: 0.98% Win Rate: 46.03%

E>Q>W Pick Rate: 12.04% Win Rate: 45.42%

Q W E E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 4.18% Win Rate: 45.20%

E W Q E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.49% Win Rate: 45.22%

Q W E Q E R E E E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.42% Win Rate: 45.58%

Starting Items

Pick Rate: 49.15% Win Rate: 45.65%

Blade of The Ruined King

Pick Rate: 39.45% Win Rate: 46.70%

Pick Rate: 36.11% Win Rate: 45.85%

Runaan's Hurricane

Pick Rate: 27.50% Win Rate: 47.79%

Guinsoo's Rageblade

Pick Rate: 21.56% Win Rate: 47.47%

Boots

Berserker's Greaves

Pick Rate: 35.49% Win Rate: 46.52%

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Pick Rate: 19.37% Win Rate: 44.56%

Boots of Swiftness

Pick Rate: 1.21% Win Rate: 46.03%

Mercury's Treads

Pick Rate: 2.29% Win Rate: 45.02%

Core Builds

Pick Rate: 7.00% Win Rate: 44.80%

Pick Rate: 2.53% Win Rate: 45.63%

Pick Rate: 2.32% Win Rate: 43.84%

Serylda's Grudge

Pick Rate: 1.98% Win Rate: 45.30%

Blade of The Ruined King

Runaan's Hurricane

Pick Rate: 1.98% Win Rate: 47.88%

Late-Game Builds

Vampiric Scepter

Pick Rate: 2.65% Win Rate: 50.85%

Pick Rate: 0.80% Win Rate: 51.47%

Pick Rate: 1.45% Win Rate: 51.12%

Pick Rate: 0.68% Win Rate: 51.32%

Tear of the Goddess

Guardian's Blade

Pick Rate: 1.46% Win Rate: 49.84%

Best Augments for Varus

Prismatic

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 58.64%

Your basic attacks launch a bolt at the target that fires after a 0.225-second delay on-attack, deals 40% of the triggering attack's pre-mitigation damage, and applies on-hit effects at 40% effectiveness. Additionally, increase your total attack speed by 20%.

Win rate: 56.40%

Your next basic attack in each cardinal direction within 750 range additionally on-attack fires 5 bolts at the target that each deal 10 to 52.5 (+ 15% bonus AD) physical damage, for a total of 50 to 262.5 (+ 75% bonus AD) physical damage (5 second cooldown per direction). Bolts' damage is increased by 0 to 50. Each bolt can critically strike for 200 damage and applies on-hit effects at 20% effectiveness. Does not trigger on minions.

Jeweled Gauntlet

Win rate: 59.14%

Your abilities can now critically strike for (145% + bonus critical damage) damage. Additionally, gain 25% (+ 4.5% per 100 AP) critical strike chance.

If both Jeweled Gauntlet and Vulnerability are equipped, only rolls the critical strike chance of the augment that has the higher critical damage (or either if equal).

Win rate: 59.86%

Become tiny, reducing your size by 75% and gaining 30% bonus movement speed. Additionally, deal 10;15;25;30 bonus damage against enemy champions with greater size than you.

Master of Duality

Win rate: 50.95%

Basic attacks on-hit grant 6 to 18 ability power and damaging abilities once per cast instance grant 3 to 9 bonus attack damage, lasting for 5 seconds, with the duration of both refreshing on subsequent hits, and stacking infinitely.

Win rate: 54.87%

Basic attacks on-hit against enemy champions and minions grant 10 bonus movement speed, lasting for 5 seconds, refreshing on subsequent triggers, and stacking infinitely. Additionally, gain bonus attack speed equal to 10% total movement speed.

Gold

Tier + appearance rate

Critical Missile

Win rate: 62.07%

Critical strikes launch 1 (+ 1 per 33.33% critical strike chance) firecracker missiles at the target that each deal 11 to 40 (+ 7% bonus AD) (+ 10% AP) magic damage (4 second cooldown). Additionally, gain 25% critical strike chance.

Win rate: 51.38%

Hitting an enemy champion with a basic ability while located at least er 700 units away from them at the time of the hit reduces its current cooldown by 80% of its total cooldown, modified to 65% for damage over time abilities.

Win rate: 65.87%

You can no longer be healed by allies and your health regeneration is set to 0. Gain 30% omnivamp.

Win rate: 55.75%

Upgrades Hubris, empowering Eminence to heal you for 2.5% (+ 0.5% per stack) maximum health upon being triggered and grant you 10 (+ 5 per stack) bonus movement speed for its duration. Additionally, gain 250 gold.

Lightning Strikes

Win rate: 54.86%

Increase your bonus attack speed gained from all sources by 20%. While at 1.75 attack speed or higher, your basic attacks deal 40 bonus magic damage on-hit.

Transmute: Prismatic

Win rate: 66.81%

Gain one random Prismatic augment, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment.

Silver

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 57.74%

Grants 60% bonus attack speed.

Upgrade Collector

Win rate: 56.31%

Upgrades The Collector, empowering Death to have its execution threshold increased by 0.5% each time you kill an enemy champion, capped at a threshold of 12.5% of the target's maximum health, and Taxes to generate a further 25 gold (total 50 gold) from kills. Additionally, gain 250 gold.

Win rate: 53.36%

Gain 35% (+ 5% per 100 AP) bonus attack speed and 25% (+ 5% per 100 AP) critical strike chance.

Win rate: 54.08%

Basic attacks fire a bolt at an additional target that deals 30% AD physical damage and applies on-hit effects.

Win rate: 54.78%

Basic attacks generate a stack, up to 4. The fourth stack consumes them all to quickly launch 4 fireworks at the target that each deal 11 to 80 (+ 35% bonus AD) (+ 19% AP) bonus magic damage on-hit, for a total of 44 to 320 (+ 140% bonus AD) (+ 76% AP).

Win rate: 59.59%

Gain 15% omnivamp.

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Recent Stats Changes

Recent Snapshots

20260522_092759 • Patch: 26.10 • C ✨ Augment changed: Gold

Rank: 86 Win: 46.41% Pick: 9.94%

Rank Δ: ↓ -1 Win Rate Δ: +0.02% Pick Rate Δ: -0.03%

Gold +Magic Missile -Thread the Needle

20260517_090029 • Patch: 26.10 • C ✨ Augment changed: Silver

Rank: 85 Win: 46.39% Pick: 9.97%

Rank Δ: ↑ +1 Win Rate Δ: +0.06% Pick Rate Δ: -0.02%

Silver +Scoped Weapons -escAPADe

20260512_082733 • Patch: 26.9 • C

Rank: 86 Win: 46.33% Pick: 9.99%

Rank Δ: ↑ +4 Win Rate Δ: +0.21% Pick Rate Δ: -0.01%

20260504_213411 • Patch: 26.8 • C ✨ Augment changed: Prismatic, Gold

Rank: 90 Win: 46.12% Pick: 10.00%

Prismatic +Mystic Punch -Infinite Recursion

Gold +Scopier Weapons, Thread the Needle, Twice Thrice -Magic Missile, Phenomenal Evil, Shrink Engine

20260424_160922 • Patch: 26.8 • C

Rank: 94 Win: 46.40% Pick: 8.54%

20260413_215021 • Patch: 26.7 • C

Rank: 86 Win: 46.83% Pick: 8.50%

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Augments commonly built on Varus

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Jeweled Gauntlet

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