Galio with Karthus
How to Synergize Galio and Karthus
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Galio Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Galio vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Galio with Karthus
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Galio in LoL
The Galio 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, Galio sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Galio perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Galio tries to synergize with Karthus, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Karthus doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Moreover, when Galio plays with Karthus on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of covering Galio during team fights.
Synergies between Galio and Karthus
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Is Galio better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Galio that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Karthus is a very bad teammate for Galio. By playing on the same side as Galio, he decreases their win rate by -6.2% to 44.4%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Galio and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Galio. That means you must be very careful when finding Karthus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Galio players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Galio and Karthus together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Galio to work well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Galio and Karthus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Karthus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Galio boasted an average win rate of 44.4% helping carry Karthus with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Galio players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.4% win rate overall.
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