Yasuo vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Yasuo
based on 10,242 Yasuo vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Varus Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Varus as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Varus
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Advice to Win Against Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Yasuo vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Yasuo in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several valuable Yasuo against Varus counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Varus..
Yasuo typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Varus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Varus?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually wins when trying to fight Varus, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Yasuo makes a good counter for Varus.
While Yasuo does have a higher win rate than Varus, when on opposite teams, Yasuo also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Yasuo into Varusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yasuo has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Varus matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Yasuo is an above average counter for Varus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Yasuo against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yasuo in order to counter Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Varus. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Yasuo versus Varus build consist of Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Varus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Yasuo had an average win rate of 52.4% when countering Varus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Varus as Yasuo, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Yasuo vs Varus face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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