Varus vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Varus
based on 6,353 Varus vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Kai'Sa
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Advice to Win Against Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Varus vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Varus in LoL
The stats shown here show several influential Varus against Kai'Sa matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kai'Sa..
Varus usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Varus and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Varus or Kai'Sa?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Varus usually wins when playing against Kai'Sa, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Varus makes a good counter to Kai'Sa.
While Varus does have a higher win rate compared to Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Varus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Varus into Kai'Sa.
Moreover, Varus also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Varus vs Kai'Sa matchups, Varus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Varus is an above average counter to Kai'Sa. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Varus against Kai'Sa.
Other Champion Matchups Against Varus
Additional Information for Varus Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus to counter Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Kai'Sa. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Varus versus Kai'Sa build consist of Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Varus included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Kai'Sa than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Kai'Sa as Varus, Varus players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Varus vs Kai'Sa LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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