Lissandra with Varus
How to Synergize Lissandra and Varus
based on 1,892 Lissandra with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lissandra Varus Synergy Summary
Best Lissandra vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lissandra and Varus
Tips for Playing as Lissandra with Varus
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Lissandra in LoL
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Varus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Varus helps Lissandra perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra tries to synergize with Varus, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may signal that Varus supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played with Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Varus.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Varus on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Varus does a poor job of covering Lissandra in teamfights.
Synergies between Lissandra and Varus
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Is Lissandra better when played alongside Varus?
There is no perfect ally for Lissandra that will no matter what be her ideal ally. However, overall, Varus is a very bad teammate for Lissandra. By being on the same team as Lissandra, he lowers their win rate by -3.2% to 46.3%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Lissandra and Varus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Lissandra. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Varus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Lissandra and Varus together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much engage potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lissandra in order to pair well with Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Lissandra and Varus synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra used at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Varus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 46.3% helping carry Varus with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Varus with Lissandra are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu above.