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.
If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Varus versus Urgot matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Urgot’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Urgot..
Varus typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Urgot. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Varus usually loses when facing off against Urgot, with a 45.6% win rate. As a result, Varus makes a poor counter for Urgot.
While Varus does have a much lower winrate than Urgot, when facing one another, Varus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Varus into Urgot.
Furthermore, Varus also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Urgot. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Varus vs Urgot matchups, Urgot is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Varus is a garbage counter to Urgot. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Urgot.
To truly master Varus in order to counter Urgot during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus often racks up a similar amount of CS as Urgot. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Varus versus Urgot build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Varus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Urgot than with many other common item sets. In fact, Varus boasted an average winrate of 45.6% battling Urgot with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Urgot as Varus, you should take 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 runes we have analyed for Varus vs Urgot LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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