Taliyah vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Taliyah
based on 1,763 Taliyah vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Varus
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Taliyah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some important Taliyah against Varus counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Varus..
Taliyah usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Varus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Varus
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Varus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Varus, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes an ok counter for Varus.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate compared to Varus, when facing one another, Taliyah also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Taliyah into Varus.
Furthermore, Taliyah 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter to Varus. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Taliyah against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah to counter Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Varus. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Varus build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Varus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Varus with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Varus as Taliyah, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Taliyah vs Varus matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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