Volibear with Karthus
How to Synergize Volibear and Karthus
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Volibear Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear 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.
Volibear Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear 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 worsening shows that Karthus helps Volibear perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear plays on the same team as Karthus, he observes a sizeable uptick in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Karthus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Moreover, when Volibear plays with Karthus on the same side, he on average takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Volibear in teamfights.
Synergies between Volibear and Karthus
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no ideal ally for Volibear that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Karthus is a relatively poor companion for Volibear. By locking into the same side as Volibear, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 46.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Volibear and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Volibear. That means you should be very careful when finding Karthus allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Volibear players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Volibear and Karthus together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Volibear to synergize with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Volibear and Karthus synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Hullbreaker, and Riftmaker. When Volibear bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Karthus than with most other common builds. In fact, Volibear boasted an average winrate of 46.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Karthus with Volibear are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.