Caitlyn with Varus
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Varus
based on 1,902 Caitlyn with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Caitlyn Varus Synergy Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Varus
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Varus
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Understand How Varus Will Play
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.
Caitlyn Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Varus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Varus helps Caitlyn perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn plays on the same team as Varus, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Varus does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played together with Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Varus.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Varus on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Varus does a poor job of covering Caitlyn during teamfights.
Synergies between Caitlyn and Varus
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Varus?
There is no ideal companion for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, Varus is a very bad teammate for Caitlyn. By being on the same side as Caitlyn, he drops their win rate by -3.2% to 46.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Caitlyn and Varus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be careful when enlisting Varus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Caitlyn and Varus together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order to work well with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Caitlyn and Varus synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Caitlyn combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Varus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 46.1% when playing alongside Varus with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Caitlyn players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Caitlyn and Varus pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.1% winrate overall.
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