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.
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
The stats shown on this page show some influential Varus vs. Xin Zhao counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao..
Varus usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Varus usually loses when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Varus makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Varus does have a lower win rate compared to Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Varus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Varus into Xin Zhao.
Furthermore, Varus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Varus vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao 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 trash counter for Xin Zhao. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Xin Zhao.
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus on average accumulates much more CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Varus versus Xin Zhao build consist of Muramana, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Varus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 47.1% when countering Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Xin Zhao as Varus, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Varus vs Xin Zhao counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.1% winrate overall.
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