Karthus with Nidalee
How to Synergize Karthus and Nidalee
based on 118 Karthus with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Core Karthus Items
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Karthus Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Karthus perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is an ally to Nidalee, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This could signal that Nidalee doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played alongside Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Nidalee on the same side, he on average takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Karthus during team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Nidalee
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Karthus that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Nidalee is a terrible teammate for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, she decreases their win rate by -7.5% to 39.8%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Karthus and Nidalee that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Karthus. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Nidalee comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Karthus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Karthus and Nidalee together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much engage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to work well with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Karthus and Nidalee synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cryptbloom, and Shadowflame. When Karthus used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 39.8% when playing alongside Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 39.8% winrate overall.
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