Karthus with Ziggs
How to Synergize Karthus and Ziggs
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Karthus Ziggs Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Ziggs
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 Ziggs Will Play
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Karthus Ziggs Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ziggs as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ziggs helps Karthus perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is an ally to Ziggs, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Ziggs helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ziggs.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Ziggs on the same team, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Karthus during teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Ziggs
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Ziggs?
There is no perfect synergy for Karthus that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Ziggs is a very bad teammate for Karthus. By being on the same side as Karthus, he lowers their win rate by -5.4% to 41.9%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Karthus and Ziggs that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Ziggs has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be careful when arranging Ziggs teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Karthus players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Karthus and Ziggs together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karthus in order to work well with Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Karthus and Ziggs synergy build consist of Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Ziggs than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 41.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ziggs with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Karthus players 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 combinations that we analyzed for Karthus and Ziggs pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 41.9% winrate overall.
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