Profitez de la longue portée de Flèche perforante pour tirer sur les champions ennemis avant le combat ou lors de leur fuite.
Mettre rapidement un point dans Carquois meurtri permet de harceler les champions ennemis et d'achever les sbires.
À courte portée, il vaut parfois mieux tirer Flèche perforante sans attendre qu'elle soit complètement chargée.
Karthus peut lancer des sorts un court moment après sa mort. Partez loin de lui quand il décède.
Assurez-vous d'avoir toujours assez de PV pour survivre à Requiem, même si vous devez revenir plus souvent à la base pour vous soigner.
The stat comparisons provided here show some critical Varus against Karthus counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karthus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karthus..
Varus often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Karthus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Varus usually fairs equally well when facing off against Karthus, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Varus makes an ok counter for Karthus.
While Varus does have a lower winrate compared to Karthus, when on opposite teams, Varus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Varus into Karthus.
Furthermore, Varus has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karthus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Varus vs Karthus matchups, Karthus is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Varus is a somewhat poor counter for Karthus. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Karthus.
If you would like to truly master Varus to counter Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus usually accumulates more CS as Karthus. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Varus versus Karthus build include Lame spectre de Youmuu, Manteau de la nuit, and Opportunité. When Varus used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Karthus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 49.6% battling Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Karthus as Varus, you should take the Tempo mortel, Triomphe, Légende : alacrité, Coup de grâce, Goût du sang, and Chasseur de trésors runes from the Précision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Varus vs Karthus counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Karthus as Varus are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.