Akali with Karthus
How to Synergize Akali and Karthus
based on 2,105 Akali with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Akali with Karthus
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Akali in LoL
The Akali Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Karthus helps Akali perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is paired with Karthus, she observes a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This may signal that Karthus does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Karthus.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Karthus on the same side, she usually receives more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Akali in team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect synergy for Akali that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, Karthus is a very bad teammate for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -4.1% to 45.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Akali and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Karthus teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Akali and Karthus together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of engage potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Akali in order to work well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Akali and Karthus synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Karthus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 45.0% when playing alongside Karthus with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Akali and Karthus pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.0% win rate overall.
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