Karthus with Qiyana
How to Synergize Karthus and Qiyana
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Karthus Qiyana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Qiyana
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Qiyana
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.
Karthus Qiyana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Qiyana as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Qiyana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Qiyana, 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 Qiyana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Qiyana helps Karthus perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus tries to synergize with Qiyana, he gets a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Qiyana does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Qiyana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Qiyana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Qiyana.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Qiyana on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Qiyana does a poor job of protecting Karthus in team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Qiyana
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Qiyana?
There is no top ally for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Qiyana is a not very good teammate for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 46.0%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Karthus and Qiyana that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Qiyana has a greater difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players must be very careful when enlisting Qiyana allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Karthus and Qiyana together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Qiyana ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Qiyana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Karthus and Qiyana synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Karthus bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Qiyana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Qiyana with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 runes players picked for Karthus and Qiyana pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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