Karthus with Bard
How to Synergize Karthus and Bard
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Karthus Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Bard
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Bard
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.
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Karthus Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karthus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Karthus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus tries to synergize with Bard, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change could signal that Bard helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played alongside Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Bard.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Bard on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Karthus during teamfights.
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Karthus that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Bard is a pretty good companion for Karthus. By playing on the same side as Karthus, he raises their win rate by 2.6% to 49.9%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Karthus and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Karthus. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Karthus and Bard together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karthus to synergize with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Karthus and Bard synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Karthus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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