Varus with Katarina
How to Synergize Varus and Katarina
based on 5,001 Varus with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Varus Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Varus with 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 Understand How Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Varus Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Varus in LoL
The Varus Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Varus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Varus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus is an ally to Katarina, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Katarina does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Katarina on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Varus in teamfights.
Synergies between Varus and Katarina
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Is Varus better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top synergy for Varus that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor teammate for Varus. By playing on the same side as Varus, she drops their win rate by -1.9% to 46.5%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Varus and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means Varus players need to be careful when finding Katarina teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Varus and Katarina together, you will not be granting your other teammates much support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus to synergize with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Varus and Katarina synergy build include Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Edge of Night. When Varus combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 46.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Varus and Katarina pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.5% win rate overall.
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