Blitzcrank with Karthus
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Karthus
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Blitzcrank Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Karthus
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Advice to Understand How Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Blitzcrank Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Blitzcrank sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karthus helps Blitzcrank perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Blitzcrank tries to synergize with Karthus, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This change may signal that Karthus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played alongside Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Karthus.
Additionally, when Blitzcrank plays with Karthus on the same side, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Blitzcrank during teamfights.
Synergies between Blitzcrank and Karthus
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Blitzcrank that will always be his best synergy. However, Karthus is a not very good ally for Blitzcrank. By locking into the same side as Blitzcrank, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 49.2%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Blitzcrank and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Blitzcrank. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Karthus teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Blitzcrank players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Blitzcrank and Karthus together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank to work well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Blitzcrank and Karthus synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Blitzcrank bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Karthus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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