Karthus with Shyvana
How to Synergize Karthus and Shyvana
based on 296 Karthus with Shyvana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Shyvana Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Core Karthus Items
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Shyvana
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 Shyvana Will Play
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
Karthus Shyvana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shyvana as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, 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 Shyvana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shyvana helps Karthus perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Shyvana, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Shyvana provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Shyvana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shyvana.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Shyvana on the same side, he often takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Shyvana does a decent job of protecting Karthus during team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Shyvana
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Shyvana?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Karthus that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Shyvana is a very bad teammate for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, she drops their win rate by -4.7% to 42.6%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Karthus and Shyvana that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Shyvana has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Shyvana allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Karthus and Shyvana together, you may not be providing your side much utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Shyvana ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karthus to synergize with Shyvana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Karthus and Shyvana synergy build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Shyvana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus had an average winrate of 42.6% when playing alongside Shyvana with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Karthus players should take 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 combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 42.6% winrate overall.
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