Karthus with Warwick
How to Synergize Karthus and Warwick
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Karthus Warwick Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Warwick
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Warwick
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 Warwick Will Play
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
Karthus Warwick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Warwick as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Warwick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Warwick, 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 Warwick. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Warwick helps Karthus perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Warwick, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Warwick supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Warwick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Warwick.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Warwick on the same side, he typically receives much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Warwick does a decent job of covering Karthus during team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Warwick
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Warwick?
There is no top companion for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Warwick is a not very good teammate for Karthus. By being on the same side as Karthus, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 46.1%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Karthus and Warwick that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Warwick has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Warwick teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Karthus and Warwick together, you may not be providing your side much cover. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Warwick teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Karthus in order to synergize with Warwick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Karthus and Warwick synergy build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Warwick than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 46.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Warwick with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Karthus and Warwick pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Warwick with Karthus are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.