Varus with Zac
How to Synergize Varus and Zac
based on 3,464 Varus with Zac pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Varus Zac Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Zac
Tips for Playing as Varus with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Varus Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Varus in LoL
The Varus Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zac helps Varus perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus plays on the same team as Zac, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zac helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played together with Zac 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 Zac.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Zac on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zac does a poor job of covering Varus in teamfights.
Synergies between Varus and Zac
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Is Varus better when played alongside Zac?
There is no ideal ally for Varus that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Zac is a good companion for Varus. By locking into the same side as Varus, he increases their win rate by 1.0% to 49.4%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Varus and Zac that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zac has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Zac allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Varus players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Varus and Zac together, you probably will not be giving your side enough utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zac ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 synergize with Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Varus and Zac synergy build consist of Muramana, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Varus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Zac than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Zac with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip 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 picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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