Neeko with Varus
How to Synergize Neeko and Varus
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Neeko Varus Synergy Summary
Best Neeko vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Neeko and Varus
Tips for Playing as Neeko with Varus
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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.
Neeko Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Neeko in LoL
The Neeko 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, Neeko 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 worsening shows that Varus helps Neeko perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Neeko tries to synergize with Varus, she gets a small decrease in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Varus does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Neeko is played alongside Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Varus.
Additionally, when Neeko plays with Varus on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Varus does a poor job of protecting Neeko in teamfights.
Synergies between Neeko and Varus
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Is Neeko better when played alongside Varus?
There is no perfect synergy for Neeko that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Varus is a not very good companion for Neeko. By locking into the same team as Neeko, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 47.0%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Neeko and Varus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Neeko. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Varus allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Neeko and Varus together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough engage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Neeko to work well with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Neeko and Varus synergy build include Cryptbloom, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Neeko bought at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Varus than with many other common builds. In fact, Neeko had an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Varus with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Neeko players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Varus with Neeko are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.