Fiddlesticks vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Fiddlesticks
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Fiddlesticks vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Fiddlesticks
Advice to Win Against Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Fiddlesticks vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Fiddlesticks against Varus matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Varus..
Fiddlesticks usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Varus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Fiddlesticks and Varus
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Varus?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually fairs equally well when playing against Varus, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes an ok counter for Varus.
While Fiddlesticks does have a higher win rate compared to Varus, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Fiddlesticks into Varusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a decent counter for Varus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiddlesticks against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Fiddlesticks in order to counter Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks on average racks up a lot less CS as Varus. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Fiddlesticks versus Varus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Varus than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Varus with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Varus as Fiddlesticks, you should use the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Fiddlesticks vs Varus battles, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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