Poppy with Karthus
How to Synergize Poppy and Karthus
based on 620 Poppy with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Karthus Counter Build
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Starter Items
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Core Poppy Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Karthus
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Karthus helps Poppy perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy is an ally to Karthus, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Karthus helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Karthus.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Karthus on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Poppy during team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Karthus
Damage Types Compared
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Poppy that will always be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Karthus is a below average teammate for Poppy. By being on the same team as Poppy, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 48.5%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Poppy and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players should be very careful when enlisting Karthus teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Poppy players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Poppy and Karthus together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Poppy Karthus Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Poppy to pair well with Karthus during both the early game 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 displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Poppy and Karthus synergy build include Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Karthus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Poppy players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Poppy and Karthus pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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