Jhin with Karthus
How to Synergize Jhin and Karthus
based on 4,515 Jhin with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Jhin Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jhin and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Jhin with Karthus
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
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.
Jhin Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Jhin in LoL
The Jhin Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Jhin sees a very large drop in his 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 Jhin perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jhin is paired with Karthus, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Karthus supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Jhin is played together with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karthus.
Moreover, when Jhin plays with Karthus on the same team, he usually receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Jhin in teamfights.
Synergies between Jhin and Karthus
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Is Jhin better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Jhin that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Karthus is a very bad teammate for Jhin. By locking into the same side as Jhin, he lowers their win rate by -4.2% to 46.8%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Jhin and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Jhin. That means you need to be careful when lining up Karthus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Jhin and Karthus together, you may not be providing your other allies enough engage potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Jhin in order to work well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Jhin and Karthus synergy build include Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Jhin bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Jhin boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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