Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
The Trundle 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, Trundle sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karthus helps Trundle perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Trundle tries to synergize with Karthus, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Karthus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Trundle is played with Karthus 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 with Karthus.
Additionally, when Trundle plays with Karthus on the same team, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of covering Trundle in team fights.
There is no one best ally for Trundle that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Karthus is a relatively poor companion for Trundle. By being on the same side as Trundle, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 51.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Trundle and Karthus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Trundle. That means you should be very careful when arranging Karthus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Trundle and Karthus together, you will not be providing your other allies very much protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Trundle in order to pair well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Trundle and Karthus synergy build include Trinity Force, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Trundle had an average win rate of 51.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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