Lux with Varus
How to Synergize Lux and Varus
based on 14,495 Lux with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lux Varus Synergy Summary
Best Lux vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Varus
Tips for Playing as Lux with Varus
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Lux in LoL
The Lux 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, Lux sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Varus helps Lux perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lux tries to synergize with Varus, she sees a little drop in her full damage output. This may signal that Varus does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played together with Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Varus.
Additionally, when Lux plays with Varus on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Varus does a poor job of protecting Lux during team fights.
Synergies between Lux and Varus
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Is Lux better when played alongside Varus?
There is no one best companion for Lux that will always be her ideal ally. However, overall, Varus is a below average teammate for Lux. By locking into the same team as Lux, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Lux and Varus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Lux. That means Lux players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Varus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Lux players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Lux and Varus together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lux in order to synergize with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Lux and Varus synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Horizon Focus. When Lux combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Varus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Varus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Lux players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Lux and Varus pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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