Thresh with Varus
How to Synergize Thresh and Varus
based on 5,936 Thresh with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Varus Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Varus
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Varus
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh 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 decrease shows that Varus helps Thresh perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Varus, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Varus doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played alongside Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Varus.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Varus on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Varus does a decent job of protecting Thresh during teamfights.
Synergies between Thresh and Varus
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Varus?
There is no perfect ally for Thresh that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Varus is a very typical ally for Thresh. By playing on the same side as Thresh, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 48.1%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Thresh and Varus that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Varus allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Thresh players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Thresh and Varus together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of engage potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Thresh to synergize with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Thresh and Varus synergy build consist of Thornmail, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Varus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Varus with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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