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.
The stats provided here underscore several vital Varus versus Sett matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sett’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sett..
Varus normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Sett. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Varus usually loses when playing against Sett, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Varus makes a poor counter to Sett.
While Varus does have a lower win rate than Sett, when on opposite teams, Varus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Varus into Sett.
Moreover, Varus also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sett. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Varus vs Sett matchups, Sett is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Varus is a garbage counter to Sett. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Varus against Sett.
To truly master Varus to counter Sett during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Sett. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Varus versus Sett build include Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Edge of Night. When Varus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Sett than with most other common item sets. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 47.9% when countering Sett with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Sett as Varus, Varus players 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Varus vs Sett clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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