Leona with Karthus
How to Synergize Leona and Karthus
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Leona Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Leona with Karthus
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karthus helps Leona perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Karthus, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Karthus helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Karthus.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Karthus on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Leona during team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Leona that will no matter what be her ideal ally. However, Karthus is a very typical ally for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 51.4%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Leona and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you should be very careful when arranging Karthus teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Leona players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Leona and Karthus together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Leona in order to synergize with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Leona and Karthus synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Karthus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when playing alongside Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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