Akshan with Karthus
How to Synergize Akshan and Karthus
based on 1,258 Akshan with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akshan Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Akshan vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Karthus
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a large worsening in their 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 Akshan perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan is an ally to Karthus, they sees a little increase in their complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Karthus provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played alongside Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Karthus.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Karthus on the same team, they on average takes more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Akshan during team fights.
Synergies between Akshan and Karthus
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no top champion pairing for Akshan that will no matter what be their best ally. Yet, Karthus is a very typical companion for Akshan. By being on the same side as Akshan, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 49.9%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Akshan and Karthus that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Karthus comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Akshan and Karthus together, you probably will not be giving your side much AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to work well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Akshan and Karthus synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better as an ally of Karthus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing alongside Karthus with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Akshan and Karthus pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Karthus with Akshan are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.