Zac with Varus
How to Synergize Zac and Varus
based on 3,464 Zac with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zac Varus Synergy Summary
Best Zac vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Varus
Tips for Playing as Zac with Varus
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.
Advice to Understand How Varus Will Play
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.
Zac Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Zac in LoL
The Zac Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zac sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Varus helps Zac perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zac plays on the same team as Varus, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Varus provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played with Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Varus.
Additionally, when Zac plays with Varus on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Varus does a poor job of protecting Zac in teamfights.
Synergies between Zac and Varus
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Is Zac better when played alongside Varus?
There is no top champion pairing for Zac that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Varus is a not very good companion for Zac. By locking into the same team as Zac, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 49.4%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Zac and Varus that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Zac. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Varus allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zac and Varus together, you probably will not be providing your team much support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Varus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zac to work well with Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Zac and Varus synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Spirit Visage, and Sunfire Aegis. When Zac used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Varus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when playing alongside Varus with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Zac players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Zac and Varus pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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