Hwei with Karthus
How to Synergize Hwei and Karthus
based on 1,705 Hwei with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hwei Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Hwei vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hwei and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Hwei with Karthus
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Hwei in LoL
The Hwei Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Hwei sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karthus helps Hwei perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hwei is an ally to Karthus, they observes a barely noticable drop in their complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Karthus does not support by providing protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Hwei is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Karthus.
Moreover, when Hwei plays with Karthus on the same side, they usually takes more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Hwei in team fights.
Synergies between Hwei and Karthus
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Is Hwei better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Hwei that will no matter what be their top ally. Yet, Karthus is a very bad teammate for Hwei. By locking into the same team as Hwei, he decreases their win rate by -5.4% to 40.6%. This signals that there is a terrible synergy between Hwei and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Hwei. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Karthus comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Hwei players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Hwei and Karthus together, you probably will not be providing your side much engage potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hwei to synergize with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Hwei and Karthus synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Hwei incorporated at least these three finished items in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Karthus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Hwei boasted an average winrate of 40.6% helping carry Karthus with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Hwei players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 40.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Karthus with Hwei are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.