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.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
The stats provided here clarify several significant Varus against Fiora matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fiora’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Fiora..
Varus normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Fiora. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Varus usually loses when trying to fight Fiora, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Varus makes a bad counter for Fiora.
While Varus does have a lower win rate than Fiora, when facing one another, Varus also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Varus into Fiora.
Additionally, Varus has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiora. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Varus vs Fiora matchups, Fiora is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Varus is a bad counter to Fiora. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Fiora.
To truly master Varus in order to counter Fiora during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Fiora. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Varus versus Fiora build include Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Serylda's Grudge. When Varus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Fiora than with most other typical builds. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Fiora with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Fiora as Varus, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Varus vs Fiora battles, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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