Alistar with Karthus
How to Synergize Alistar and Karthus
based on 874 Alistar with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Karthus Counter Build
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Core Alistar Items
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Karthus
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karthus helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is paired with Karthus, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Karthus supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karthus.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Karthus on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Alistar during teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Karthus
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best synergy for Alistar that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Karthus is a relatively poor companion for Alistar. By being on the same team as Alistar, he lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 47.1%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Alistar and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when arranging Karthus allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Alistar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Alistar and Karthus together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Alistar in order to work well with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Alistar and Karthus synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Karthus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 47.1% helping carry Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
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