Ivern with Karthus
How to Synergize Ivern and Karthus
based on 199 Ivern with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ivern Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Ivern vs Karthus Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Ivern Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Ivern and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Ivern with Karthus
Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
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.
Ivern Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Ivern in LoL
The Ivern 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, Ivern sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Ivern perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ivern plays on the same team as Karthus, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Karthus helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ivern 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 Ivern plays with Karthus on the same side, he often receives significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Ivern in team fights.
Synergies between Ivern and Karthus
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Is Ivern better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Ivern that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Karthus is a terrible companion for Ivern. By playing on the same team as Ivern, he decreases their win rate by -4.6% to 46.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Ivern and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Ivern. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Karthus comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Ivern and Karthus together, you may not be giving your team very much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Additional Information for Ivern Players
How We Calculated Our Ivern Karthus Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ivern in order to pair well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Ivern and Karthus synergy build include Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Karthus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ivern boasted an average winrate of 46.2% when playing alongside Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Ivern players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
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