Nunu & Willump with Karthus
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Karthus
based on 415 Nunu & Willump with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Karthus
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.
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.
Nunu & Willump Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nunu & Willump sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karthus helps Nunu & Willump perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump plays on the same team as Karthus, he observes a clear improvement in his total damage output. This may indicate that Karthus provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Karthus 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 Karthus.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Karthus on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of covering Nunu & Willump in teamfights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Karthus
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nunu & Willump that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Karthus is a terrible companion for Nunu & Willump. By locking into the same side as Nunu & Willump, he lowers their win rate by -4.8% to 42.7%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Nunu & Willump and Karthus that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players should be cautious when enlisting Karthus allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Karthus together, you will not be providing your other allies very much AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to pair well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Karthus synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Karthus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 42.7% helping carry Karthus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 42.7% win rate overall.
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