Taric with Karthus
How to Synergize Taric and Karthus
based on 471 Taric with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taric Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Taric vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Taric with Karthus
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
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.
Taric Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Taric in LoL
The Taric 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, Taric sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Taric perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taric plays on the same team as Karthus, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Karthus does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played alongside Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karthus.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Karthus on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of covering Taric during team fights.
Synergies between Taric and Karthus
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Is Taric better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best champion pairing for Taric that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Karthus is a relatively poor teammate for Taric. By being on the same team as Taric, he decreases their win rate by -2.9% to 49.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Taric and Karthus that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Taric. That means Taric players must be careful when arranging Karthus teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Taric players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Taric and Karthus together, you probably will not be providing your team much sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Taric to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Taric and Karthus synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 49.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Taric players should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Taric and Karthus pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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