Karthus with Brand
How to Synergize Karthus and Brand
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Karthus Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Brand
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Brand
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.
Advice to Understand How Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Karthus Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karthus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Brand helps Karthus perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Brand, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Brand does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Brand.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Brand on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Brand does a decent job of protecting Karthus in team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Brand
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Brand?
There is no top champion pairing for Karthus that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Brand is a not very good ally for Karthus. By being on the same team as Karthus, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 45.7%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Karthus and Brand that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be careful when finding Brand comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Karthus and Brand together, you will not be granting your team enough attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Brand ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karthus in order to work well with Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Karthus and Brand synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 45.7% helping carry Brand with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
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