Varus with Thresh
How to Synergize Varus and Thresh
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Varus Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Varus with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
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.
Varus Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Varus in LoL
The Varus Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Thresh helps Varus perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus tries to synergize with Thresh, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Thresh helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played with Thresh on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Thresh.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Thresh on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Thresh does a decent job of covering Varus during team fights.
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Is Varus better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no perfect ally for Varus that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Thresh is a very typical companion for Varus. By being on the same side as Varus, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 48.1%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Varus and Thresh that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Thresh has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means you need to be careful when finding Thresh comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Varus players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Varus and Thresh together, you will not be granting your other teammates much engage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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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 pair well with Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Varus and Thresh synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Varus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Thresh than with most other typical builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Thresh with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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