Reign of Gaming

Just wanted to start a discussion on who is currently one of my favourite and most played champions - Varus. I tend to find myself in the AD carry role often in my ranked games and nine times out of ten I'll pick Varus. I feel really comfortable with him and usually do well. At the moment I'm climbing Silver 1 steadily and hope to be going for promotion to Gold in the next few days. I usually run standard armour pen/armour/magic res per level/attack damage runes, and standard 21/9/0 masteries. I start boots 3 pots and try to pick up attack speed asap. I usually end up getting greaves and a doran's blade then having 2 daggers for a while before I rush into Blade of the Ruined King. I just find he benefits from attack speed much more than other ad carries since it lets you get 3 quick autoattacks off followed by a quick E for tons of damage. I find that 90% of the time I will kill the opposite ad carry in a 1 on 1 without a problem. During teamfights I love playing him since it's not a bad thing if the enemy tank or bruisers try to zone me since I can often kill them without a problem with my %health damage. Often in a fight if they're bunched up together it's pretty much guaranteed I get a few kills since the burst damage from his autos and spells is immense... 

... which brings me to asking if anyone has had any success with alternative item builds on him? I played with a guy a few months ago who insisted on getting Hurricane for the split autoattacks, so he could quickly build up his W on 3 enemies bunched up and burst them down. He also used to get a malady and similar on-hit items. Has anyone had any success with anything like this? I'm not talking about the AP Varus build I've seen some people try... I just mean a slightly different AD carry build tailored to his kit. Hurricane on paper seems like it'd be really good, but obviously if they're not bunched up then it's wasted.

Also looking for general tips to improve. I usually get W first for the easier last-hitting and the harass. I tend to alternate between skilling into W and E depending on how things are going, but I've seen different people max either so I guess that's up for debate? I usually rush Blade and then Phantom Dancer, next getting IE or LW depending on the game and enemy builds.

How much LP are you losing per loss? I'm gaining around 6 or 7 per win and losing about 5 per loss. But then it can randomly give me +15 for a win or -10 for a loss. I guess that's based on the level of my opponents. In general over the past few days I've been winning 1 or 2 more than I've been losing in an extended session, so I've seen a steady increase in Silver 1 from about 30LP to 76LP, where I'm at now. If I carry on like this I do expect to get Gold, but it depends on how lucky I am with my promotion tbh. I tend to have pretty bad luck in my promotion matches.

Locket yes. Gives everything a jungler needs and helps the team greatly also. I am quite fond of getting Boots of Mobility on certain junglers for the ganks, although since the game is so AD heavy right now Ninja Tabi is pretty good too. I only tend to get Ancient Golem upgrade on certain junglers. Sometimes I just won't upgrade.. It tends to depend on how the game is going.

First? Also, a few champions here I want to try out.. Zac and Zyra. And also champions I'm pretty good with despite the fact I don't own them! Not a bad week!

While I agree that we (EUW) shouldn't get anything for this particular case, we've had plenty of server problems over the past few months and received no IP boosts or anything. I think it was just a few weeks ago when we couldn't play for the best part of a day or two.

Anyone know if there's any truth in any of the skin rumours? I've heard all sorts of crap over on the League forums. Are any of the stories legit?

Great, now let's prepare ourselves for her being in EVERY game for the next week or so. >_>

Random question but how do you see the news articles before they're triggered? Looking at the coding for the page or something?

Anyway, I'm not particularly interested in Zac as a champion. Sure, if he's good at his role then I may end up buying him, but just from a thematic and visual viewpoint I'm not really interested...

Loving the champ sale... Tempted to buy all 3, but definitely Vi! Also, Hello RoG :)

Built up some IP and been looking through the store for a new champion to buy. I prefer to play mid but I'm realistic enough to know that when playing solo I often will have to do other roles too so I prefer to buy champions capable of filling multple roles, often the ones who can top/mid or mid/jungle. I have little knowledge of Rumble other than he's a very strong top laner and counter to many melee bruisers. I'm wondering how he does as a mid? Obviously he's melee which would make it harder to farm against some ranged AP champions but since his spells cost no mana I guess he can still farm pretty effectively from afar? I know he is capable of going mid but would I be better off playing a 'normal' AP mid-laner? What are his strengths and weaknesses? Just looking for some input from those with some experience, thanks!