Rumble with Varus
How to Synergize Rumble and Varus
based on 2,713 Rumble with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rumble Varus Synergy Summary
Best Rumble vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Varus
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Varus
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
Rumble Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rumble sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Varus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Varus helps Rumble perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rumble tries to synergize with Varus, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Varus does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played together with Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Varus.
Additionally, when Rumble plays with Varus on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Varus does a poor job of protecting Rumble during team fights.
Synergies between Rumble and Varus
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Varus?
There is no one best ally for Rumble that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Varus is a not very good ally for Rumble. By being on the same team as Rumble, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Rumble and Varus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Rumble. That means Rumble players don't need to be cautious when finding Varus teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Rumble players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Rumble and Varus together, you will not be granting your side much support. Make sure to bring other champions 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 income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Rumble in order to pair well with Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Rumble and Varus synergy build include Riftmaker, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Varus than with most other common builds. In fact, Rumble had an average winrate of 48.1% when playing alongside Varus with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Rumble and Varus pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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