Aatrox with Varus
How to Synergize Aatrox and Varus
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Aatrox Varus Synergy Summary
Best Aatrox vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Varus
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Varus
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
Aatrox Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox 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, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Varus helps Aatrox perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox is paired with Varus, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This change may signal that Varus supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played alongside Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Varus.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Varus on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Varus does a poor job of protecting Aatrox during team fights.
Synergies between Aatrox and Varus
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Varus?
There is no one best ally for Aatrox that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Varus is a below average teammate for Aatrox. By being on the same team as Aatrox, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 49.2%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Aatrox and Varus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Varus has a lower difficulty than Aatrox. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Varus teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Aatrox and Varus together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Varus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox to pair well with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Aatrox and Varus synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Spear of Shojin. When Aatrox used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Varus than with many other common builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Varus with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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