Illaoi with Karthus
How to Synergize Illaoi and Karthus
based on 946 Illaoi with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Karthus
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi 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 worsening shows that Karthus helps Illaoi perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Karthus, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Karthus helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Karthus.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Karthus on the same team, she usually receives more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Illaoi during teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Karthus
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best companion for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Karthus is a relatively poor ally for Illaoi. By being on the same side as Illaoi, he lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 47.6%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Illaoi and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players need to be careful when arranging Karthus allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Illaoi and Karthus together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to pair well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Illaoi and Karthus synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Karthus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Illaoi and Karthus pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Karthus with Illaoi are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.