Karthus with Naafiri
How to Synergize Karthus and Naafiri
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Karthus Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Karthus Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Naafiri helps Karthus perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Naafiri, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Naafiri provides protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played alongside Naafiri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Naafiri on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Naafiri does a poor job of protecting Karthus in teamfights.
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Karthus that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Naafiri is a very typical teammate for Karthus. By playing on the same side as Karthus, they drops their win rate by -0.5% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Karthus and Naafiri that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be cautious when finding Naafiri comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, Karthus players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Karthus and Naafiri together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much cover. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Naafiri teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to work well with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Karthus and Naafiri synergy build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Naafiri than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when playing alongside Naafiri with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Karthus players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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