Karthus with Talon
How to Synergize Karthus and Talon
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Karthus Talon Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Talon
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Karthus Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Talon helps Karthus perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Talon, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This could indicate that Talon supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Talon.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Talon on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Talon does a poor job of covering Karthus in team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Talon
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Talon?
There is no perfect synergy for Karthus that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Talon is a very typical companion for Karthus. By locking into the same side as Karthus, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 47.9%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Karthus and Talon that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Talon has a lower difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be cautious when arranging Talon comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Karthus and Talon together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much cover. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Talon teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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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 Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Karthus and Talon synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Talon than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus had an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against 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 we have analyed for Karthus and Talon pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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