Garen with Karthus
How to Synergize Garen and Karthus
based on 1,780 Garen with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Garen with Karthus
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Karthus helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Karthus, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Karthus helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Karthus on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Karthus
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Is Garen better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Garen that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Karthus is a very bad teammate for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, he decreases their win rate by -3.4% to 45.3%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Garen and Karthus that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Karthus comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Garen and Karthus together, you may not be giving your team very much utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Garen and Karthus synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Karthus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 45.3% helping carry Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Garen and Karthus pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.3% winrate overall.
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