Urgot with Karthus
How to Synergize Urgot and Karthus
based on 1,025 Urgot with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Urgot Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Urgot and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Urgot with Karthus
Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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.
Urgot Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Urgot in LoL
The Urgot 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, Urgot sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karthus helps Urgot perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Urgot plays on the same team as Karthus, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Karthus helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Urgot is played with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Moreover, when Urgot plays with Karthus on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Urgot in team fights.
Synergies between Urgot and Karthus
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Is Urgot better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Urgot that will always be his best synergy. However, Karthus is a not very good companion for Urgot. By playing on the same team as Urgot, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Urgot and Karthus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Urgot. That means Urgot players don't need to be very careful when lining up Karthus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Urgot and Karthus together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of support. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Urgot in order to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Urgot and Karthus synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Force of Nature. When Urgot used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Karthus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Urgot had an average winrate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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