Jax with Karthus
How to Synergize Jax and Karthus
based on 2,733 Jax with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Jax Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Jax vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Jax with Karthus
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Jax in LoL
The Jax 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, Jax sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karthus helps Jax perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jax tries to synergize with Karthus, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Karthus supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played together with Karthus on the same side, 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 Jax plays with Karthus on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Jax during team fights.
Synergies between Jax and Karthus
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Is Jax better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best synergy for Jax that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Karthus is a relatively poor ally for Jax. By locking into the same side as Jax, he decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 49.2%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Jax and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Jax. That means Jax players should be cautious when finding Karthus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Jax players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Jax and Karthus together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jax to pair well with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Jax and Karthus synergy build include Trinity Force, Blade of The Ruined King, and Spear of Shojin. When Jax used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Karthus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 49.2% when playing alongside Karthus with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Jax and Karthus pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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