Xayah with Karthus
How to Synergize Xayah and Karthus
based on 644 Xayah with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xayah Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Xayah vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Xayah with Karthus
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Xayah in LoL
The Xayah 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, Xayah 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 Xayah perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xayah tries to synergize with Karthus, she observes a little increase in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Karthus provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Additionally, when Xayah plays with Karthus on the same side, she often receives more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Xayah during team fights.
Synergies between Xayah and Karthus
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Is Xayah better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect ally for Xayah that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Karthus is a very bad companion for Xayah. By locking into the same team as Xayah, he lowers their win rate by -3.6% to 44.1%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Xayah and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Xayah. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Karthus comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Xayah players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Xayah and Karthus together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Xayah to synergize with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Xayah and Karthus synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah bought at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Karthus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 44.1% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Xayah and Karthus pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.1% win rate overall.
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