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.
You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
The Varus Aurelion Sol synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aurelion Sol, 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 Aurelion Sol. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aurelion Sol helps Varus perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus is an ally to Aurelion Sol, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Aurelion Sol provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played with Aurelion Sol on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aurelion Sol.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Aurelion Sol on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Aurelion Sol does a poor job of protecting Varus in team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Varus that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Aurelion Sol is a very typical teammate for Varus. By playing on the same side as Varus, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Varus and Aurelion Sol that results in them performing at the same level together than without each other.
Aurelion Sol has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Aurelion Sol comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Varus players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Varus and Aurelion Sol together, you may not be providing your team much cover. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Aurelion Sol ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus to synergize with Aurelion Sol during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Varus and Aurelion Sol synergy build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Varus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Aurelion Sol than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Aurelion Sol with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Aurelion Sol with Varus are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.