Varus with Gragas
How to Synergize Varus and Gragas
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Varus Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Varus with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Varus Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Varus in LoL
The Varus Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gragas helps Varus perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus plays on the same team as Gragas, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Gragas provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played together with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gragas.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Gragas on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Gragas does a decent job of protecting Varus in team fights.
Synergies between Varus and Gragas
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Is Varus better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no one best ally for Varus that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Gragas is a relatively poor teammate for Varus. By locking into the same team as Varus, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 45.7%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Varus and Gragas that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Varus. That means Varus players must be cautious when enlisting Gragas teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Varus players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Varus and Gragas together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus to work well with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Varus and Gragas synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Varus included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Gragas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Varus boasted an average winrate of 45.7% helping carry Gragas with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating 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 Gragas pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.7% win rate overall.
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