Karthus with Katarina
How to Synergize Karthus and Katarina
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Karthus Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Karthus Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Karthus perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus tries to synergize with Katarina, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Katarina does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Katarina on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Karthus during teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Katarina
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect synergy for Karthus that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Katarina is a below average ally for Karthus. By being on the same team as Karthus, she decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 45.7%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Karthus and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players need to be cautious when arranging Katarina comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Karthus and Katarina together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to synergize with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Karthus and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 45.7% helping carry Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Karthus players 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 builds players picked for Karthus and Katarina pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.7% winrate overall.
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