Kindred with Karthus
How to Synergize Kindred and Karthus
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Kindred Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Kindred vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Karthus
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Advice to Understand How Karthus Will Play
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.
Kindred Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karthus helps Kindred perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kindred tries to synergize with Karthus, they observes a marginal improvement in their total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Karthus helps provide protection for them to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played alongside Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Karthus.
Moreover, when Kindred plays with Karthus on the same team, they usually takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Kindred during teamfights.
Synergies between Kindred and Karthus
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kindred that will always be their ideal ally. Yet, overall, Karthus is a terrible ally for Kindred. By locking into the same team as Kindred, he lowers their win rate by -4.0% to 44.3%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Kindred and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Kindred. That means you should be very careful when lining up Karthus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Kindred players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Kindred and Karthus together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of cover. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Kindred and Karthus synergy build include Trinity Force, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 44.3% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Karthus with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Karthus with Kindred are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.