Karthus with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Karthus and Nunu & Willump
based on 415 Karthus with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Karthus Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump Will Play
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Karthus Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nunu & Willump helps Karthus perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Nunu & Willump provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Karthus during team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Nunu & Willump
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Nunu & Willump is a very bad companion for Karthus. By playing on the same side as Karthus, he decreases their win rate by -4.6% to 42.7%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Karthus and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Nunu & Willump allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Karthus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Karthus and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be providing your side a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you need to focus on increasing 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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How We Calculated Our Karthus Nunu & Willump 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 Karthus in order to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Karthus and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Karthus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nunu & Willump than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 42.7% helping carry Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Karthus players 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Karthus and Nunu & Willump pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Nunu & Willump with Karthus are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.