Rammus with Karthus
How to Synergize Rammus and Karthus
based on 346 Rammus with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rammus Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Karthus Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Rammus Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Karthus
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
Advice to Understand How Karthus Will Play
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.
Rammus Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rammus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karthus helps Rammus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rammus is an ally to Karthus, he gets a clear improvement in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Karthus provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played alongside Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Additionally, when Rammus plays with Karthus on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Rammus during teamfights.
Synergies between Rammus and Karthus
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Rammus better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Rammus that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Karthus is a decent teammate for Rammus. By locking into the same side as Rammus, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 52.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Rammus and Karthus that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Rammus. That means Rammus players need to be careful when enlisting Karthus teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Rammus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Rammus and Karthus together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Rammus in order to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Rammus and Karthus synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rammus boasted an average win rate of 52.9% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Rammus players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Rammus and Karthus pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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