Karthus with Volibear
How to Synergize Karthus and Volibear
based on 783 Karthus with Volibear pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Volibear Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Volibear
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.
Karthus Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Volibear helps Karthus perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is paired with Volibear, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Volibear doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Volibear 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 Volibear.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Volibear on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Volibear does a decent job of protecting Karthus during team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Volibear
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no perfect companion for Karthus that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Volibear is a very typical teammate for Karthus. By being on the same team as Karthus, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 46.4%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Karthus and Volibear that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Volibear has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be very careful when lining up Volibear teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Karthus players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Karthus and Volibear together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karthus to work well with Volibear during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Karthus and Volibear synergy build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Volibear than with many other common builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Volibear with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Karthus and Volibear pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Volibear with Karthus are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.