Karthus with Akshan
How to Synergize Karthus and Akshan
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Karthus Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Akshan
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.
Advice to Understand How Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Karthus Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karthus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akshan helps Karthus perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is paired with Akshan, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Akshan helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akshan.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Akshan on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Akshan does a poor job of covering Karthus in teamfights.
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no one best ally for Karthus that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Akshan is a good teammate for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, they improves their win rate by 2.6% to 49.9%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Karthus and Akshan that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Akshan comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Karthus and Akshan together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your 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 Karthus in order to synergize with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Karthus and Akshan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Karthus used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Akshan than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Akshan with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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