Champion Select[]
- Pick
- Ban
- ▶️ "I have no grace to give."
- Quotes in which Varus' vessels — Kai and Valmar — speak are presented as conversations. Varus is the main voice, otherwise.
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No mercy, no forgiveness. Mortal or monster, all will fall."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Kai: "Every step forward..."
- Valmar: "...is stolen."
- Varus: "I move toward the vengeance I deserve."
- Valmar: "...is stolen."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "A battle nears."
- Kai: "It will ruin this land, Varus!"
- Varus: "Let it scar."
- Kai: "It will ruin this land, Varus!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "Many stand against us."
- Kai: "Must they all die...?"
- Varus: "May they rot where my arrows rain."
- Kai: "Must they all die...?"
- First Move with Ally
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Naafiri, you claim unity is power. Power within me—and against our enemies. Let us see, together."
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I faced terrors... Until I became one."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ " Darkin, or human... I was always a weapon."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No heart binds me!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A land of riddled bodies marks my return."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I will bury the world that buried me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "My hosts dwell on a humanity long gone..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The magic that sealed me became my blight."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Compassion... is but a whisper."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "An arrow should not question its course."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "All who cross me will be made my targets."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "War must quiet my mind..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus: "Valmar. Join me in retribution."
- Valmar: "If I must. For Kai..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus: "Spite drives me."
- Valmar: "And drains us."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "You walk a dark path, Varus."
- Varus: "We all do."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus: "My kin will scourge this world!"
- Kai: "We won't cower."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus: "Vengenace is power!"
- Kai: "As is mercy."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Kai: "Your tormentors are gone..."
- Varus: "But my hatred seethes."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "Grieve for the lost."
- Varus: "Why? No one grieved for me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Kai: "Fight for refuge!"
- Varus: "For revenge."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus: "Archers shoot to kill."
- Valmar: "No. To defend!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "We've fallen so far..."
- Varus: "Not far enough."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Kai: "Forgiveness takes nothing!"
- Varus: "It costs everything."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus: "I need not humanity."
- Kai: "Yet it lives within you."
Long Move[]
- 15 seconds cooldown, 2000 units
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Which burns brighter—the fire of retribution, or the heart's light?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You dove into my prison, humans. Drown with me..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Valeeva, Xolaani, Naafiri. What unique ambitions you have, my sisters."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Mortals once used me to confront the Darkin. I see no greater war than facing my brethren."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "If you must speak, humans: let your voices be the howl of arrows."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No peace will endure once I find my fellow Darkin."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Valmar and Kai urge redemption... Is it so beyond me?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "I aim to save my people!"
- Varus: "As did I. Now my aim leaves ruin in its wake."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Kai: "What are the Darkin?"
- Varus: "The pain and rage you mortals dared forget."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus: "What use is mercy?"
- Kai: "It's the first step towards redemption!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Kai: "This bow is a heavy burden..."
- Varus: "Feel its hatred, Kai. Let it take root."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "Noxus wronged me!"
- Varus: "This world wronged us, Valmar. I will make it weep."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "Are these the fields, of home?"
- Varus: "Let go of Ionia! Find comfort in carnage."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "Varus, you were once human."
- Kai: "You can be, again!"
- Varus: "I cannot go back. I must be more."
- Kai: "You can be, again!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus: "What strength do you cling to, sons of Ionia?"
- Kai: "Each other."
- Valmar: "To the last breath."
- Kai: "Each other."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "Until the end."
- Kai: "Always."
- Varus: "There is no end in sight!"
- Kai: "Always."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Kai: "We'll walk together again..."
- Valmar: "One day."
- Varus: "How rare for such will to persist."
- Valmar: "One day."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "We were all warriors."
- Kai: "Protectors!"
- Varus: "And our honor damned us."
- Kai: "Protectors!"
First Encounter[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Pray you fall swiftly. Every cut will be anguish."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You may run, but you will not be spared."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No plea for mercy will stay my hand."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Brave enough to oppose me; fool enough to die."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A sword has no reach, brother—no aim."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Aatrox, brother, the double 'A' thing is absurd and you know it."
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Rhaast. Perhaps we should warn our siblings about... Ionian vessels."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Rhaast, control yourself. You make the rest of us look foolish, brother."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You wish unity for us, sister. Can this be realized in battle?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Hounds, Naafiri? You make me grateful for my vessels."
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with Ascended
- First Encounter with Darkin
Taunt[]
- Taunt Response
Joke[]
- Joke Response
Laugh[]
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
- 30% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus grunts.
Attacking[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Your body will stain the earth."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Vengeance unbound."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Blood for my kin."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I do not forgive!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Your will decays!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Even hope will perish."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Despair finds its mark."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Know my torment."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Beg for your life!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I give not salvation!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No time to regret."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Too late to atone!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "My blight devours!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You are to blame!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Undo all that is good."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Death and decay!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Grovel."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Your punishment."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Face oblivion."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Rot!"
Ability Casting[]
Using []
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus charges while grunting loudly, then shouts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus charges while grunting loudly, then shouts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus grunts deeply and then groans in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus grunts deeply then exhales forcefully through his nose.
- At Maximum Charge
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus huffs forcefully and yells in great effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus huffs forcefully and yells in great effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus huffs forcefully and yells in great effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus huffs forcefully and yells in great effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus huffs forcefully and yells in great effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus huffs forcefully and yells in great effort.
Using []
- 50% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Break!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Writhe!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Yield!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus grunts loudly.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus grunts loudly.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus grunts loudly.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus shouts in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus shouts in effort.
Using []
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Suffer!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Give in!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Fall!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus yells in great effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus yells in great effort.
- Ranking for the First Time
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "They will die where they stand."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "All I see; all within reach."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Corrupt, control."
Kills and Objectives[]
- Killing a Champion
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let corruption seep in."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Death does not absolve you."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Pain... My gift to you."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The life in your eyes wanes."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You will die faster than you could run."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Your long-overdue end."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A small piece of a greater retribution."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Speak your regrets to the dirt."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Breathe your last; feel every wound."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Corrupted and cut down."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The fate of those who defy me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "None escape my aim."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "One arrow to finish everything."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus laughs derisively.
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
- Scoring First Blood
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The first of many."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A taste of bloodshed."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let this be a warning to the rest."
- Scoring a Pentakill
Other Gameplay[]
- Low Health
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "My work is not done...!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "This form must not fail..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus hyperventilates.
- Valmar: "Enough, Varus..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus hyperventilates.
- Kai: "Mortal, still..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus hyperventilates.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus hyperventilates.
[]
- 50% chance, 10 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "In quiet moments, I see the memories of Darkin and men..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A moment of rest—before the massacre resumes."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Enjoy this respite, sons of Ionia. It will not last."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "This calm is nothing compared to the deathly stillness I will bring."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The cries of the guilty will fill the air."
Death[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Valmar, Kai... I..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No...! Humans die..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Varus groans and exhales." "
- Respawn
- 75% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Valmar, Kai—do not divide my focus."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "So long as this bow remains, I live."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Again. Only cowards flee their fate."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I am Darkin. Even death itself will not stop me!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Kai: "Another chance to choose peace..."
- Varus: "I am a weapon. What choice do I have?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Valmar: "We're alive...!"
- Varus: "To see my revenge through."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Kai: "Pardon them..."
- Valmar: "They only want to survive!"
- Varus: "They forfeit their lives."
- Valmar: "They only want to survive!"
Trivia[]
- Varus' encounter quotes with Aatrox, Rhaast, and Naafiri — all of whom are Darkin — each feature one humorous line and one line relevant to their roles and lore as Darkin. These lines have an equal chance of triggering.
- Some of Varus' previous voicelines were kept with his voice update, either as the same or similar:
- His pick quote ▶️ "The guilty will know agony." from ▶️
- ▶️ "Face oblivion." from ▶️
- ▶️ "My work is not done." from ▶️
- ▶️ "Pain... My gift to you." from ▶️ "Pain is my gift to you."
- ▶️ "No mercy, no forgiveness. Mortal or monster, all will fall." from ▶️ "No forgiveness."
- ▶️ "Again. Only cowards flee their fate." from ▶️ "Only cowards flee their fate."
- ▶️ "I give not salvation!" from ▶️ "There is no salvation."
- ▶️ "All who cross me will be made my targets." from ▶️ "Pity those who cross me."