Kayle with Karthus
How to Synergize Kayle and Karthus
based on 1,069 Kayle with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayle Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Kayle vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kayle and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Kayle with Karthus
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Understand How Karthus Will Play
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.
Kayle Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Kayle in LoL
The Kayle Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kayle sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karthus helps Kayle perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayle plays on the same team as Karthus, she sees a small increase in her full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Karthus supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayle is played together with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Moreover, when Kayle plays with Karthus on the same team, she usually receives more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Kayle in team fights.
Synergies between Kayle and Karthus
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Is Kayle better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no top champion pairing for Kayle that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Karthus is a not very good ally for Kayle. By locking into the same team as Kayle, he drops their win rate by -2.5% to 48.8%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Kayle and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Kayle. That means Kayle players don't need to be very careful when finding Karthus teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Kayle players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kayle and Karthus together, you may not be providing your team very much crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 truly master Kayle to work well with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Kayle and Karthus synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Kayle included at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Karthus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 48.8% helping carry Karthus with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Kayle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kayle and Karthus pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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