Karthus with Shaco
How to Synergize Karthus and Shaco
based on 927 Karthus with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Karthus Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Karthus perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus tries to synergize with Shaco, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Shaco provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Shaco 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 synergisticly with Shaco.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Shaco on the same team, he typically takes less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Shaco does a decent job of covering Karthus during team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Shaco
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no ideal synergy for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Shaco is a pretty good ally for Karthus. By being on the same team as Karthus, he increases their win rate by 1.8% to 49.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Karthus and Shaco that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players should be very careful when enlisting Shaco teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Karthus players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Karthus and Shaco together, you may not be giving your team much cover. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Karthus in order to pair well with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Karthus and Shaco synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Karthus included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Shaco than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shaco with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Karthus players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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