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How to Synergize Karthus with Nami on the Same TeamKarthus is in the b tier of champions

Karthus with Nami

How to Win With Karthus and Nami Paired TogetherKarthus is in the a tier of champions
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How to Synergize Karthus and Nami

based on 1,331 Karthus with Nami pairs
Win Rate
44.7 %
K/D/A
2.16
Pick Rate
2.7 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

We download the stats from from millions of LoL rounds directly from Riot Games each and every week. Karthus has been on the same team as Nami in 1331 recent, ranked games. By gathering so much complete data from the creators of League, we feel confident that we can provide you with high quality, insightful builds to help Karthus play with Nami. It is relatively rare for Karthus to play alongside Nami as teammates. This has only taken place in approx. 2.7% of games with Karthus.

Karthus Nami Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Karthus does a awful job of playing alongside Nami. Usually, he wins a dismal 44.7% of games the champs try and work together in. If you want to play better as Karthus when fighting on the same team as Nami by figuring out how to better synergize your strategy with her, then dig into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Karthus vs Nami Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's RingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Sapphire CrystalAmplifying Tome

Core Karthus Items

~22 Mins
Rabadon's DeathcapMalignanceStormsurge

Optional Items

ShadowflameVoid StaffLiandry's TormentLuden's Companion

Summoner Spells

summonerexhaust summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Karthus to level upq
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Second ability for Karthus to level upe
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Last skill for Karthus to max outw

Runes

DominationDark HarvestCheap ShotEyeball CollectionUltimate Hunter
PrecisionPresence of MindLast Stand
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceArmor
Karthus's passive ability p
Karthus's q ability q
Karthus's w ability w
Karthus's e ability e
Karthus's ultimate ability r
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Nami

Tips for Playing as Karthus with Nami

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 Nami Will Play

Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.

Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.

Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.

Karthus Nami Synergy Stats

Karthus Image
Win Rate
44.7 %
VS
Win Rate
55.3 %
Nami Image
7.1
< Kills >
7
7.4
< Deaths >
7.6
8.9
< Assists >
9.5
1.68
< Killing Sprees >
1.63
87
< Minions Killed >
88
0.93
< Dragons Killed >
0.89
0.27
< Inhibitors >
0.28
244
< Physical Damage >
246
28,851
< Magic Damage >
29,153
2,004
< True Damage >
2,031
31,100
< Damage Dealt >
31,430
30,463
< Damage Taken >
29,785
12,806
< Gold Earned >
12,799
1.07
< Towers >
1.08
0.24
< Baron Takedowns >
0.23
9,711
< Total Healing >
9,279
14,700
< Experience >
14,921
18
< Vision Score >
19
6
< Wards Placed >
7
216
< Time Dealing CC >
221

How to Play with Nami as Karthus in LoL

The Karthus Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nami helps Karthus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Karthus tries to synergize with Nami, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nami does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Nami on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nami.

Moreover, when Karthus plays with Nami on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Nami does a poor job of covering Karthus in teamfights.

Synergies between Karthus and Nami

Damage Types Compared

Karthus
Nami
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Karthus
Nami

Is Karthus better when played alongside Nami?

There is no one best synergy for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Nami is a relatively poor teammate for Karthus. By locking into the same side as Karthus, she drops their win rate by -2.6% to 44.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Karthus and Nami that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.

Nami has a lower difficulty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Nami allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.

When playing together, Karthus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.

Conversely, by pairing Karthus and Nami together, you may not be giving your team a lot of engage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.

Regardless of the skill of your Nami ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Karthus Players

How We Calculated Our Karthus Nami Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Karthus and Nami, we analyzed 1,331 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Karthus with Nami comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to synergize with Nami during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.

The best items to use in your Karthus and Nami synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Karthus bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nami than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 44.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nami with this build.

To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.7% winrate overall.

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