Varus with Annie
How to Synergize Varus and Annie
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Varus Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Annie
Tips for Playing as Varus with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Varus Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Varus in LoL
The Varus Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Annie helps Varus perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus plays on the same team as Annie, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Annie does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played alongside Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Annie. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Annie.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Annie on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Annie does a poor job of protecting Varus in team fights.
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Is Varus better when played alongside Annie?
There is no ideal ally for Varus that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Annie is a very typical teammate for Varus. By locking into the same team as Varus, she improves their win rate by 0.6% to 49.0%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Varus and Annie that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Annie has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means you should be very careful when lining up Annie allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Varus and Annie together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of engage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Annie ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 pair well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Varus and Annie synergy build consist of Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Varus included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Annie than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Annie with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Varus players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Varus and Annie pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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