Dr. Mundo with Karthus
How to Synergize Dr. Mundo and Karthus
based on 953 Dr. Mundo with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Dr. Mundo Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Dr. Mundo vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Dr. Mundo and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Dr. Mundo with Karthus
Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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.
Dr. Mundo Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Dr. Mundo in LoL
The Dr. Mundo 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, Dr. Mundo 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 decrease shows that Karthus helps Dr. Mundo perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Dr. Mundo tries to synergize with Karthus, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Karthus supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Dr. Mundo is played alongside Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Additionally, when Dr. Mundo plays with Karthus on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of covering Dr. Mundo in team fights.
Synergies between Dr. Mundo and Karthus
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Is Dr. Mundo better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best synergy for Dr. Mundo that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Karthus is a terrible ally for Dr. Mundo. By being on the same team as Dr. Mundo, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 48.0%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Dr. Mundo and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Dr. Mundo. That means you should be cautious when finding Karthus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Dr. Mundo and Karthus together, you may not be giving your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Dr. Mundo in order to work well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Dr. Mundo and Karthus synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Dr. Mundo combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Karthus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Dr. Mundo had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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