Ezreal vs Varus Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
Two very different profiles meet in the ADC lane: Ezreal the marksman/mage hybrid, Varus the marksman/mage hybrid. Over 2,835 ranked games on patch 16.13.1, Ezreal closes out 51.9% of them. That is 1.9 points above even, so Varus is one of the matchups Ezreal can lean on.
Shared damage type here — mixed for Ezreal as well as Varus. Ezreal carries 600 base health to Varus’s 600, and 24 armour to 24. Scaling matters as well: Ezreal ends on 2334 HP, Varus on 2385. There is a movement gap too: 325 for Ezreal, 330 for Varus.
Both champions are ranged (Ezreal at 550, Varus at 575), so the lane is decided by cooldowns rather than reach.
A missed Trueshot Barrage from Ezreal hands Varus the window to land Blighted Quiver. Trueshot Barrage and Chain of Corruption are the two buttons that end the exchange outright.
A 7/10 difficulty rating on Ezreal, against 2/10, means the sample includes plenty of players still learning it. Treat 2,835 games as the confidence attached to 51.9%. Data here updates on its own rather than sitting as a fixed snapshot taken on 16.13.1.
FAQ
Yes — Ezreal holds the statistical advantage in this matchup. Ezreal wins 51.9% of the recorded games.
51.9% from Ezreal's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
2,835 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Ezreal build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Ezreal build page.