Rakan with Karthus
How to Synergize Rakan and Karthus
based on 1,432 Rakan with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Karthus
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.
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.
Rakan Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rakan sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Rakan perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan plays on the same team as Karthus, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This could signal that Karthus does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Karthus on the same team, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Rakan in teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and Karthus
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Rakan that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Karthus is a very bad teammate for Rakan. By playing on the same side as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -3.5% to 47.1%. This proves that there is a terrible synergy between Rakan and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players should be very careful when finding Karthus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Rakan and Karthus together, you may not be providing your other allies very much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan to work well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Rakan and Karthus synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Karthus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 47.1% helping carry Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
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