Varus vs Miss Fortune — Bot Lane (ADC) Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Varus against Miss Fortune · 46.43% win rate over 2,565 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Closer than it looks — Varus owns 7 of the 7 game windows, but the win rate still favours Miss Fortune: you have to convert those windows or the game slips away. Varus wins 46.43% of games vs Miss Fortune in bot lane (adc) (2,565 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1VarusVarus out-ranges Miss Fortune's Double Up at level 1.
Level 2VarusLevel 2 Blighted Volley plus Q poke beats her early trade pattern.
Level 3VarusAt 3 your full combo chunks her whenever she steps to farm.
Levels 4-5VarusThrough 4-5 she has no mobility to dodge your sustained poke.
Level 6VarusYour level 6 R roots MF out of her Bullet Time channel.
First itemVarusFirst-item Varus keeps the range and lockdown advantage over immobile MF.
Two+ itemsVarusAt 2+ items your R denies her ult and she dies before channeling.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-2 are yours: you out-range Miss Fortune with three-stack Piercing Arrow and proc your W with Blighted Volley, so poke her whenever she approaches the wave and don't feed her Double Up bounces off the minions.

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The full Varus vs Miss Fortune report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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