Bard with Karthus
How to Synergize Bard and Karthus
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Bard Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Bard with Karthus
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard 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 worsening shows that Karthus helps Bard perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard tries to synergize with Karthus, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This could signal that Karthus supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Karthus on the same side, 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 Bard plays with Karthus on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Karthus is a not very good ally for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Bard and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when lining up Karthus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Bard players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Bard and Karthus together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to pair well with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Bard and Karthus synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Karthus than with many other common builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Bard and Karthus pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
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