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.
Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
The stats provided here feature some strategic Varus vs. Trundle matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Trundle’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Trundle..
Varus typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Trundle. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Varus usually loses when trying to fight Trundle, with a 46.6% win rate. As a result, Varus makes a poor counter to Trundle.
While Varus does have a lower winrate compared to Trundle, when facing one another, Varus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Varus into Trundle.
Furthermore, Varus has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Trundle. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Varus is a terribly counter for Trundle. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Trundle.
To truly master Varus in order to counter Trundle during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Trundle. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Varus versus Trundle build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Varus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Trundle than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 46.6% battling Trundle with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Trundle as Varus, Varus players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Varus vs Trundle face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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