Varus vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Varus
based on 4,915 Varus vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Lee Sin
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 Win Against Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Varus vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Varus in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some valuable Varus vs. Lee Sin matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lee Sin..
Varus usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Lee Sin. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Varus and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Varus or Lee Sin?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Varus usually fairs equally well when playing against Lee Sin, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Varus makes an ok counter to Lee Sin.
While Varus does have a higher win rate compared to Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Varus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Varus into Lee Sin.
Additionally, Varus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Varus vs Lee Sin matchups, Varus is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Varus is a decent counter for Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Varus against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus on average gets much more CS relative to Lee Sin. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Varus versus Lee Sin build consist of Muramana, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Varus used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Lee Sin than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when playing against Lee Sin with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Lee Sin as Varus, Varus players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Varus vs Lee Sin LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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