Thresh vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Thresh
based on 5,952 Thresh vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against 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 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.
Thresh vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several significant Thresh against Varus matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between this set of champs. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Varus. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Varus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Varus
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Who is Better, Thresh or Varus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when taking on Varus, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes an ok counter to Varus.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate compared to Varus, when facing one another, Thresh also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Varusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Varus matchups, Varus 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 late stage team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Varus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh on average picks up a lot less CS as Varus. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Varus build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Varus than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 49.2% battling Varus with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Varus as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Thresh vs Varus clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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