Kalista with Karthus
How to Synergize Kalista and Karthus
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Kalista Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Karthus Counter Build
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Core Kalista Items
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Karthus
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karthus helps Kalista perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista is an ally to Karthus, she observes a little increase in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Karthus supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Karthus on the same team, she typically receives more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Kalista during team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Karthus
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no top companion for Kalista that will always be her best teammate. However, Karthus is a terrible teammate for Kalista. By playing on the same side as Kalista, he decreases their win rate by -3.3% to 44.1%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Kalista and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Karthus comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kalista and Karthus together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of engage potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kalista in order to pair well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Kalista and Karthus synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista bought at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average winrate of 44.1% helping carry Karthus with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.1% winrate overall.
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