Ziggs with Karthus
How to Synergize Ziggs and Karthus
based on 477 Ziggs with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ziggs Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Ziggs vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ziggs and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Ziggs with Karthus
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Ziggs in LoL
The Ziggs 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, Ziggs 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 negative change shows that Karthus helps Ziggs perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ziggs plays on the same team as Karthus, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Karthus does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karthus.
Moreover, when Ziggs plays with Karthus on the same team, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Ziggs in team fights.
Synergies between Ziggs and Karthus
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Is Ziggs better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Ziggs that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Karthus is a very bad ally for Ziggs. By being on the same team as Ziggs, he decreases their win rate by -6.2% to 41.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Ziggs and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Ziggs. That means you should be careful when finding Karthus allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Ziggs and Karthus together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to work well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Ziggs and Karthus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average win rate of 41.9% helping carry Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Ziggs and Karthus pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 41.9% winrate overall.
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