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.
The Varus Qiyana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Qiyana, 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 Qiyana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Qiyana helps Varus perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus tries to synergize with Qiyana, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Qiyana does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played alongside Qiyana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Qiyana.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Qiyana on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Qiyana does a decent job of protecting Varus in teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Varus that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Qiyana is a very bad teammate for Varus. By locking into the same team as Varus, she drops their win rate by -3.9% to 44.5%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Varus and Qiyana that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Qiyana has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means you should be cautious when arranging Qiyana allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Varus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Varus and Qiyana together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of engage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Qiyana teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to work well with Qiyana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Varus and Qiyana synergy build include Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Edge of Night. When Varus used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Qiyana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 44.5% when playing alongside Qiyana with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you 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 this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.5% winrate overall.
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