Karthus with Alistar
How to Synergize Karthus and Alistar
based on 874 Karthus with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Karthus Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karthus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Karthus perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Alistar, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Alistar helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Alistar 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 synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Alistar on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Alistar does a poor job of covering Karthus in teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Alistar
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top companion for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Alistar is a very typical teammate for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 47.1%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Karthus and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be very careful when finding Alistar allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Karthus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Karthus and Alistar together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus in order to synergize with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Karthus and Alistar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Alistar than with most other common builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when playing alongside Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.1% winrate overall.
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