Varus with Alistar
How to Synergize Varus and Alistar
based on 2,509 Varus with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Varus Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Varus with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Varus Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Varus in LoL
The Varus Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Varus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Varus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus plays on the same team as Alistar, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Alistar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Alistar on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Varus during team fights.
Synergies between Varus and Alistar
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Is Varus better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no perfect companion for Varus that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Alistar is a not very good teammate for Varus. By locking into the same team as Varus, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 46.6%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Varus and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Alistar comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Varus and Alistar together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of magic damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Varus in order to synergize with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Varus and Alistar synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Varus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Alistar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average winrate of 46.6% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.6% win rate overall.
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