Darius with Karthus
How to Synergize Darius and Karthus
based on 1,761 Darius with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Darius Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Darius vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Darius with Karthus
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius 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 worsening shows that Karthus helps Darius perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius is an ally to Karthus, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Karthus helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karthus.
Moreover, when Darius plays with Karthus on the same team, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Darius in team fights.
Synergies between Darius and Karthus
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Is Darius better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Darius that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Karthus is a not very good companion for Darius. By locking into the same side as Darius, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Darius and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means Darius players must be cautious when finding Karthus allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Darius players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Darius and Karthus together, you may not be granting your team much support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Darius in order to synergize with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Darius and Karthus synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Darius bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Karthus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Darius had an average winrate of 47.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Darius and Karthus pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
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