Warwick vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Warwick
based on 6,480 Warwick vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Varus
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Warwick in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some strategic Warwick vs. Varus matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Varus..
Warwick typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Varus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Varus
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Who is Better, Warwick or Varus?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually wins when taking on Varus, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Warwick makes a good counter to Varus.
While Warwick does have a higher winrate compared to Varus, when facing one another, Warwick also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Warwick into Varus.
Additionally, Warwick has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Varus matchups, Warwick is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Warwick is a decent counter for Varus. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Warwick against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Warwick in order to counter Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Varus. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Warwick versus Varus build consist of Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Varus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Warwick had an average winrate of 51.0% when playing against Varus with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Varus as Warwick, Warwick players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Warwick vs Varus counters, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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