Karthus with Gangplank
How to Synergize Karthus and Gangplank
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Karthus Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Karthus Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gangplank helps Karthus perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Gangplank, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Gangplank supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played alongside Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Gangplank on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Karthus in team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Gangplank
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no top synergy for Karthus that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Gangplank is a very typical ally for Karthus. By playing on the same team as Karthus, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 47.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Karthus and Gangplank that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Karthus. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Gangplank comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Karthus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Karthus and Gangplank together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 truly master Karthus to work well with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Karthus and Gangplank synergy build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Gangplank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Karthus players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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