Karthus with Braum
How to Synergize Karthus and Braum
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Karthus Braum Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Braum
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Braum
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 Braum Will Play
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.
Karthus Braum Synergy Stats
How to Play with Braum as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Braum synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Braum, 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 Braum. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Braum helps Karthus perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus is paired with Braum, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Braum does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Braum on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Braum. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Braum.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Braum on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Braum does a poor job of covering Karthus in teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Braum
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Braum?
There is no ideal synergy for Karthus that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Braum is a terrible ally for Karthus. By being on the same side as Karthus, he decreases their win rate by -3.3% to 44.0%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Karthus and Braum that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Braum has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Braum teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Karthus and Braum together, you will not be providing your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Braum teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karthus in order to synergize with Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Karthus and Braum synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Braum than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 44.0% helping carry Braum with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Karthus players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Karthus and Braum pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.0% win rate overall.
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