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 Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Samira helps Varus perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus is paired with Samira, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Samira provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played together with Samira 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 Samira.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Samira on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Samira does a poor job of protecting Varus in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Varus that will always be his #1 ally. However, Samira is a below average ally for Varus. By playing on the same team as Varus, she drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.2%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Varus and Samira that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Samira has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means Varus players need to be very careful when enlisting Samira teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Varus players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Varus and Samira together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Samira ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Varus to pair well with Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Varus and Samira synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Varus used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Samira than with many other common item sets. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 47.2% when playing alongside Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Varus and Samira pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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