Braum with Karthus
How to Synergize Braum and Karthus
based on 591 Braum with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Braum Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Braum vs Karthus Counter Build
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Core Braum Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Braum and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Braum with Karthus
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
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.
Braum Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Braum in LoL
The Braum 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, Braum sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Braum perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Braum is an ally to Karthus, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Karthus does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Braum is played together with 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 with Karthus.
Moreover, when Braum plays with Karthus on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Braum during teamfights.
Synergies between Braum and Karthus
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Is Braum better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no ideal ally for Braum that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Karthus is a terrible ally for Braum. By playing on the same side as Braum, he lowers their win rate by -7.4% to 44.0%. This signals that there is a terrible synergy between Braum and Karthus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Braum. That means Braum players should be very careful when arranging Karthus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Braum players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Braum and Karthus together, you may not be giving your other allies enough AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Additional Information for Braum Players
How We Calculated Our Braum Karthus Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Braum in order to work well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Braum and Karthus synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Braum combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Braum had an average win rate of 44.0% helping carry Karthus with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Braum players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Karthus with Braum are displayed for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.