Rammus with Varus
How to Synergize Rammus and Varus
based on 2,786 Rammus with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rammus Varus Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Varus Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Varus
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Varus
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
Advice to Understand How Varus Will Play
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.
Rammus Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rammus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Varus helps Rammus perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rammus is paired with Varus, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Varus does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played together with Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Varus.
Moreover, when Rammus plays with Varus on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Varus does a poor job of covering Rammus during team fights.
Synergies between Rammus and Varus
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Rammus better when played alongside Varus?
There is no one best ally for Rammus that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Varus is a not very good companion for Rammus. By locking into the same team as Rammus, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Rammus and Varus that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Rammus. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Varus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Rammus players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Rammus and Varus together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Varus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to synergize with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Rammus and Varus synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Dead Man's Plate. When Rammus combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Varus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rammus had an average winrate of 49.5% when playing alongside Varus with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Rammus players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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