Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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 Udyr 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, Udyr sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karthus helps Udyr perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Udyr plays on the same team as Karthus, he observes a noticable increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Karthus helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Udyr is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Karthus.
Moreover, when Udyr plays with Karthus on the same team, 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 Udyr in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Udyr that will always be his best ally. However, Karthus is a below average ally for Udyr. By locking into the same side as Udyr, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 47.4%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Udyr and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Udyr. That means Udyr players don't need to be careful when lining up Karthus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Udyr players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Udyr and Karthus together, you will not be providing your other teammates much cover. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Udyr to work well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Udyr and Karthus synergy build include Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Karthus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Udyr had an average winrate of 47.4% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Udyr players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
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