Stukov, Varians biggest counter

For the motherland.

So we all know Varian. No introduction needed.

Why is Stukov the biggest counter?

For the following reasons:
Lvl 4 Biotic armor
Healing Pathogen grants 15 Physical Armor to targets while active on them. Detonating Bio-Kill Switch increases this bonus to 75 for 2.5 seconds.

So in between 15 and 75 psychical armor and at 16 combined with universal carrier its almost pernament 15 psychical armor

“Cool neat trick but what else?”
When Varian charges in. You just put E on him. And if you are talented W/E+D
So a slow in the silence. Making him unable to escape , heal with his Q or protect.
And the great thing about Stukov. A lot of things is AOE. So he helps the rest of the team while making Varian feel useless

Both his ults counter him but I like the shove the most because whenever he goes in. You can push him away.
You can even flank him and push him into towers. So even if you have your E on cd. You can always use your R. And vise versa+ the psychical armor.

Thats 3 things that counter him so far. Thats huge!!
When he retreats you can put down a W to make his lifechoises questionable

So just use your pocketknife to deal with him every time he goes in. And he will hate you!! :smiley:

I miss his old biotic armor that gave 50 physical armor whenever an ally had Healing Pathogen on them (only affected primary cast target though).

Such great protection vs auto attackers.
New one is great as well even though the duration is lower since you can basically nullify an AA diver’s damage completely.

Good point but no one wants to play a healer people just wanna charge in with butcher

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Cool, today when I played healer, I got this Butcher.

Me: “Why did you go 3v5?”
Butcher: “They are as 5 all time”
Logic!

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I see they had a Valeera. When I play Valeera I make it my goal to have the Butcher end the game with as close to 0 meat as possible. It looks like she did something similar. :3

I mean, to be fair, they should just stand there and let him kill them.

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“so next time my E cooldown is up we’d better be 5 too because you know I press that $#!@ on cooldown. Idiot.

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Its all or nothing with Butcher players

Im appearently a butcher main on this acc. I just wanted lvl 20 to say hey guys who wants coaching.
Honestly never get why some people who have 0 meat in 5 min still stay in fights. I had a game where I underperformed first and then just split pushed untill I was stacked.

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Can butchy be a nice solo laner?