Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
The Tristana 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, Tristana 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 negative change shows that Varus helps Tristana perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tristana is paired with Varus, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Varus provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played with Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Varus.
Moreover, when Tristana plays with Varus on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Varus does a poor job of protecting Tristana in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Tristana that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, Varus is a very typical ally for Tristana. By playing on the same side as Tristana, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Tristana and Varus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Varus has a lower difficulty than Tristana. That means Tristana players don't need to be cautious when finding Varus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Tristana players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Tristana and Varus together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to work well with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Tristana and Varus synergy build consist of Kraken Slayer, Immortal Shieldbow, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Varus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Varus with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Tristana players should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Tristana and Varus pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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