Warwick with Karthus
How to Synergize Warwick and Karthus
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Warwick Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Warwick and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Warwick with Karthus
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Warwick in LoL
The Warwick 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, Warwick 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 fall shows that Karthus helps Warwick perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Warwick is an ally to Karthus, he observes a sizeable uptick in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Karthus helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Warwick is played 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.
Additionally, when Warwick plays with Karthus on the same team, he on average takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Warwick in teamfights.
Synergies between Warwick and Karthus
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Is Warwick better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Warwick that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Karthus is a terrible companion for Warwick. By being on the same side as Warwick, he lowers their win rate by -3.2% to 46.1%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Warwick and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Warwick. That means Warwick players need to be careful when finding Karthus allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Warwick players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Warwick and Karthus together, you will not be providing your other allies enough cover. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Warwick in order to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Warwick and Karthus synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Titanic Hydra, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Warwick incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Karthus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Warwick boasted an average win rate of 46.1% helping carry Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
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