Varus with Brand
How to Synergize Varus and Brand
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Varus Brand Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Brand
Tips for Playing as Varus with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Varus Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Varus in LoL
The Varus Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Brand helps Varus perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus plays on the same team as Brand, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This could signal that Brand does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played alongside Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Brand.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Brand on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of protecting Varus in team fights.
Synergies between Varus and Brand
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Is Varus better when played alongside Brand?
There is no ideal ally for Varus that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Brand is a very typical ally for Varus. By locking into the same team as Varus, he improves their win rate by 0.6% to 49.0%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Varus and Brand that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Brand has a greater difficulty than Varus. That means Varus players should be cautious when enlisting Brand comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Varus and Brand together, you probably will not be providing your team much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus to synergize with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Varus and Brand synergy build include Muramana, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Varus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 49.0% when playing alongside Brand with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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