Lux vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Lux
based on 15,025 Lux vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Varus Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Varus as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Varus
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Lux in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some strategic Lux vs. Varus matchup statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Varus. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Lux usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Varus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lux and Varus
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Who is Better, Lux or Varus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lux usually wins when facing off against Varus, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Lux makes a good counter to Varus.
While Lux does have a higher winrate compared to Varus, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Lux into Varus.
Moreover, Lux has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Lux vs Varus matchups, Lux is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lux is an above average counter for Varus. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lux against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lux in order to counter Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux usually racks up less CS relative to Varus. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Lux versus Varus build consist of Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Lux combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Varus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lux boasted an average win rate of 52.1% when countering Varus with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Varus as Lux, Lux players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Lux vs Varus fights, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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