Karthus with Rakan
How to Synergize Karthus and Rakan
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Karthus Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Karthus Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rakan helps Karthus perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is paired with Rakan, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Rakan doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rakan.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Rakan on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Rakan does a decent job of covering Karthus in teamfights.
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no perfect ally for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Rakan is a very typical teammate for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 47.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Karthus and Rakan that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be careful when lining up Rakan comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Karthus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Karthus and Rakan together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karthus in order to synergize with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Karthus and Rakan synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Karthus combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 47.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Karthus players 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 builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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