Karthus with Lucian
How to Synergize Karthus and Lucian
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Karthus Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Lucian
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.
Advice to Understand How Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Karthus Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karthus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lucian. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lucian helps Karthus perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Lucian, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Lucian does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Lucian on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lucian. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lucian.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Lucian on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Lucian does a poor job of protecting Karthus in team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Lucian
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no top synergy for Karthus that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Lucian is a very bad companion for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, he lowers their win rate by -3.5% to 43.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible synergy between Karthus and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Lucian allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Karthus players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Karthus and Lucian together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of engage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Karthus to synergize with Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Karthus and Lucian synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Lucian than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karthus had an average winrate of 43.8% when playing alongside Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Karthus and Lucian pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.8% winrate overall.
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