Shyvana with Karthus
How to Synergize Shyvana and Karthus
based on 296 Shyvana with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Karthus
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana 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 fall shows that Karthus helps Shyvana perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana tries to synergize with Karthus, she observes a sizeable uptick in her total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Karthus helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Karthus.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Karthus on the same side, she on average takes more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of covering Shyvana during team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Karthus
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Shyvana that will always be her best teammate. Yet, Karthus is a very bad teammate for Shyvana. By playing on the same side as Shyvana, he lowers their win rate by -6.5% to 42.6%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Shyvana and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players should be careful when finding Karthus allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Shyvana players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Shyvana and Karthus together, you probably will not be giving your side very much utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shyvana in order to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Shyvana and Karthus synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Karthus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 42.6% helping carry Karthus with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Shyvana and Karthus pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.6% win rate overall.
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