Varus vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Varus
based on 2,188 Varus vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Orianna
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 Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Varus vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Varus in LoL
The stats shown here feature several vital Varus vs. Orianna matchup stats that can help you understand the differences between these two champs. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Orianna’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Orianna..
Varus normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Orianna. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Varus and Orianna
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Who is Better, Varus or Orianna?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Varus usually fairs equally well when facing off against Orianna, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Varus makes an ok counter for Orianna.
While Varus does have a lower win rate compared to Orianna, when on opposite teams, Varus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Varus into Orianna.
Furthermore, Varus also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Orianna. 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 Orianna matchups, Orianna is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Varus is a somewhat poor counter to Orianna. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Varus against Orianna.
Other Champion Matchups Against Varus
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How We Calculated Our Varus vs Orianna Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus to counter Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Orianna. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Varus versus Orianna build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Varus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Orianna than with many other common item sets. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 49.3% battling Orianna with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Orianna as Varus, Varus players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Varus vs Orianna battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Orianna as Varus are presented for all ranked divisions. To filter the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.