Varus vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Varus
based on 5,454 Varus vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Varus vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Varus in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several influential Varus vs. Rengar matchup stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rengar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rengar..
Varus typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Rengar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Varus and Rengar
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Who is Better, Varus or Rengar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Varus usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rengar, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Varus makes an ok counter to Rengar.
While Varus does have a lower winrate compared to Rengar, when facing one another, Varus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Varus into Rengar.
Moreover, Varus also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Varus vs Rengar matchups, Rengar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Varus is a somewhat poor counter for Rengar. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Varus against Rengar.
Other Champion Matchups Against Varus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus to counter Rengar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus often accumulates much more CS compared to Rengar. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Varus versus Rengar build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Varus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Rengar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 49.1% battling Rengar with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Rengar as Varus, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Varus vs Rengar clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Rengar as Varus are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.