Katarina vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Katarina
based on 5,343 Katarina vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Varus
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several vital Katarina vs. Varus matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Varus..
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes more damage than Varus. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Varus
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Who is Better, Katarina or Varus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when facing off against Varus, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a good counter to Varus.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate than Varus, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Varusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Varus matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Varus. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often picks up a similar amount of CS as Varus. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Katarina versus Varus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Varus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 51.4% when countering Varus with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Varus as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Katarina vs Varus matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.4% win rate overall.
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