Alistar vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Alistar
based on 2,606 Alistar vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Varus
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Alistar vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Alistar versus Varus counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Varus. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Varus. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Varus
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Who is Better, Alistar or Varus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Varus, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes an ok counter to Varus.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate than Varus, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Varusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Varus matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Varus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Varus. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Varus build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Varus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Varus with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Varus as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Alistar vs Varus battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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