Viego with Karthus
How to Synergize Viego and Karthus
based on 822 Viego with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viego Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Viego vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viego and Karthus
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.
Viego Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Viego in LoL
The Viego 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, Viego sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karthus helps Viego perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viego plays on the same team as Karthus, they gets a marginal improvement in their complete damage dealt. This may signal that Karthus supports by providing protection for them to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Viego is played alongside Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Moreover, when Viego plays with Karthus on the same team, they typically receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Viego during teamfights.
Synergies between Viego and Karthus
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Is Viego better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Viego that will 100% of the time be their ideal synergy. However, Karthus is a very bad ally for Viego. By being on the same side as Viego, he decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 47.4%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Viego and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Viego. That means Viego players should be very careful when enlisting Karthus allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Viego and Karthus together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough tankyness. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Viego to pair well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Viego and Karthus synergy build consist of Wit's End, Death's Dance, and Kraken Slayer. When Viego combined at least these three great items in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Karthus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Viego had an average win rate of 47.4% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
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