Karthus with Wukong
How to Synergize Karthus and Wukong
based on 387 Karthus with Wukong pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Wukong Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Wukong Counter Build
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Core Karthus Items
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Karthus Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Wukong helps Karthus perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Wukong, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Wukong supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Wukong on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Wukong.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Wukong on the same team, he typically receives less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Wukong does a decent job of covering Karthus in teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Wukong
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no one best companion for Karthus that will always be his top synergy. However, Wukong is a pretty good teammate for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Karthus and Wukong that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Wukong has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Wukong teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Karthus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Karthus and Wukong together, you will not be giving your team very much protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Wukong ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Additional Information for Karthus Players
How We Calculated Our Karthus Wukong Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karthus in order to work well with Wukong during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Karthus and Wukong synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Karthus bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Wukong than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Wukong with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Karthus and Wukong pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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