Karthus with Garen
How to Synergize Karthus and Garen
based on 1,780 Karthus with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Garen Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Garen
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
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.
Karthus Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Karthus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus is an ally to Garen, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Garen supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Garen on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Karthus in teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Garen
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect ally for Karthus that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Garen is a below average companion for Karthus. By locking into the same side as Karthus, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 45.3%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Karthus and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be very careful when arranging Garen comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Karthus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Karthus and Garen together, you probably will not be giving your team enough support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 in order to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Karthus and Garen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Karthus combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 45.3% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Karthus and Garen pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.3% winrate overall.
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