Draven with Karthus
How to Synergize Draven and Karthus
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Draven Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Draven and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Draven with Karthus
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
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.
Draven Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Draven in LoL
The Draven 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, Draven sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karthus helps Draven perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Draven plays on the same team as Karthus, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Karthus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Draven is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Moreover, when Draven plays with Karthus on the same team, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Draven in teamfights.
Synergies between Draven and Karthus
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Is Draven better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Draven that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Karthus is a not very good companion for Draven. By playing on the same team as Draven, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Draven and Karthus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Draven. That means Draven players don't need to be very careful when finding Karthus comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Draven and Karthus together, you may not be giving your other teammates much protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Draven in order to synergize with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Draven and Karthus synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Draven incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Karthus than with most other common builds. In fact, Draven boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Draven players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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