Varus vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Varus
based on 5,343 Varus vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Varus vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Varus in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Varus against Katarina counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between the two. Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Katarina..
Varus usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Katarina. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Varus and Katarina
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Who is Better, Varus or Katarina?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Varus usually loses when playing against Katarina, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Varus makes a poor counter for Katarina.
While Varus does have a lower winrate than Katarina, when facing one another, Varus also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Varus into Katarina.
Furthermore, Varus has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Varus vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Varus is a somewhat poor counter for Katarina. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Varus against Katarina.
Other Champion Matchups Against Varus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus to counter Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Katarina. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Varus versus Katarina build include Runaan's Hurricane, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Varus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Katarina than with many other typical builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 48.6% battling Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Katarina as Varus, Varus players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Varus vs Katarina LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Katarina as Varus are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.