Karthus with Malphite
How to Synergize Karthus and Malphite
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Karthus Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Malphite
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 Malphite Will Play
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
Karthus Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, 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 Malphite. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malphite helps Karthus perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus is paired with Malphite, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Malphite supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malphite.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Malphite on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malphite does a poor job of protecting Karthus during teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Malphite
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no top synergy for Karthus that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Malphite is a very typical ally for Karthus. By being on the same side as Karthus, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Karthus and Malphite that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be very careful when arranging Malphite allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Karthus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Karthus and Malphite together, you will not be granting your team much sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karthus in order to synergize with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Karthus and Malphite synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Karthus used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Malphite than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malphite with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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