Varus with Garen
How to Synergize Varus and Garen
based on 5,084 Varus with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Varus Garen Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Garen
Tips for Playing as Varus with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Varus Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Varus in LoL
The Varus Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Varus perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus is an ally to Garen, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change may signal that Garen helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Garen on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Varus during team fights.
Synergies between Varus and Garen
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Is Varus better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Varus that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Garen is a not very good teammate for Varus. By playing on the same side as Varus, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 47.1%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Varus and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Varus. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Garen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Varus players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Varus and Garen together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Varus in order to work well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Varus and Garen synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Varus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Varus players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
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