Karthus with Renekton
How to Synergize Karthus and Renekton
based on 895 Karthus with Renekton pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Renekton Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Renekton Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Renekton
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Renekton
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 Renekton Will Play
Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
Karthus Renekton Synergy Stats
How to Play with Renekton as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Renekton synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Renekton, 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 Renekton. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Renekton helps Karthus perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is an ally to Renekton, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Renekton provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Renekton on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Renekton. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Renekton.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Renekton on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Renekton does a poor job of protecting Karthus during teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Renekton
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Renekton?
There is no one best companion for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Renekton is a relatively poor teammate for Karthus. By being on the same side as Karthus, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 45.8%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Karthus and Renekton that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Renekton has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be very careful when finding Renekton comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Karthus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Karthus and Renekton together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Renekton ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karthus in order to pair well with Renekton during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Karthus and Renekton synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Renekton than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karthus had an average winrate of 45.8% when playing alongside Renekton with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Karthus players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Karthus and Renekton pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.8% winrate overall.
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