Kha'Zix with Karthus
How to Synergize Kha'Zix and Karthus
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Kha'Zix Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Kha'Zix vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kha'Zix and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix with Karthus
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Kha'Zix Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Kha'Zix in LoL
The Kha'Zix 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, Kha'Zix sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karthus helps Kha'Zix perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kha'Zix tries to synergize with Karthus, he observes a clear improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Karthus helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kha'Zix is played together with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Moreover, when Kha'Zix plays with Karthus on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Kha'Zix in team fights.
Synergies between Kha'Zix and Karthus
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Is Kha'Zix better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best ally for Kha'Zix that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Karthus is a very typical ally for Kha'Zix. By being on the same side as Kha'Zix, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 49.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Kha'Zix and Karthus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Kha'Zix. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Karthus comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Kha'Zix players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kha'Zix and Karthus together, you probably will not be giving your side much engage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Kha'Zix to work well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Kha'Zix and Karthus synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Kha'Zix combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kha'Zix had an average winrate of 49.1% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Kha'Zix players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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