Diana with Karthus
How to Synergize Diana and Karthus
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Diana Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Diana and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Diana with Karthus
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Diana in LoL
The Diana 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, Diana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karthus helps Diana perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Diana is an ally to Karthus, she observes a little increase in her total damage dealt. This change could signal that Karthus supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Diana is played together with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Karthus.
Additionally, when Diana plays with Karthus on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Karthus does a decent job of protecting Diana in team fights.
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Is Diana better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best synergy for Diana that will always be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Karthus is a below average ally for Diana. By playing on the same team as Diana, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Diana and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Diana. That means you should be careful when finding Karthus allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Diana players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Diana and Karthus together, you will not be giving your team a lot of utility. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Diana to work well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Diana and Karthus synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Diana used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Karthus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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