Karthus with Illaoi
How to Synergize Karthus and Illaoi
based on 946 Karthus with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Core Karthus Items
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Karthus Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Illaoi helps Karthus perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is an ally to Illaoi, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Illaoi helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played alongside Illaoi 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 with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Illaoi on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Karthus in teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Illaoi
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no one best champion pairing for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Illaoi is a very typical companion for Karthus. By being on the same side as Karthus, she improves their win rate by 0.3% to 47.6%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Karthus and Illaoi that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Illaoi has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Illaoi allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Karthus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Karthus and Illaoi together, you may not be giving your team much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Illaoi ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Karthus in order to work well with Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Karthus and Illaoi synergy build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Illaoi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 47.6% helping carry Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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