Samira with Karthus
How to Synergize Samira and Karthus
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Samira Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Samira and Karthus
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.
Samira Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Samira in LoL
The Samira 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, Samira 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 decrease shows that Karthus helps Samira perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Samira is an ally to Karthus, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Karthus helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Karthus.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Karthus on the same side, she on average receives more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Samira during team fights.
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Is Samira better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no ideal ally for Samira that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, overall, Karthus is a not very good companion for Samira. By locking into the same team as Samira, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 47.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Samira and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Samira. That means Samira players should be careful when lining up Karthus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Samira and Karthus together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 truly master Samira to pair well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Samira and Karthus synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Karthus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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