Tristana with Karthus
How to Synergize Tristana and Karthus
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Tristana Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Karthus
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana 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, Tristana 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 Tristana perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tristana is paired with Karthus, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Karthus helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played alongside Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Karthus.
Moreover, when Tristana plays with Karthus on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of covering Tristana in team fights.
Synergies between Tristana and Karthus
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Tristana that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Karthus is a superb ally for Tristana. By playing on the same side as Tristana, he raises their win rate by 3.1% to 52.0%. This signals that there is a very real bond between Tristana and Karthus that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Tristana. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Karthus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Tristana and Karthus together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to pair well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Tristana and Karthus synergy build consist of Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Karthus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 52.0% when playing alongside Karthus with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Tristana and Karthus pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Karthus with Tristana are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.