Karthus with Maokai
How to Synergize Karthus and Maokai
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Karthus Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Karthus Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Karthus perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus tries to synergize with Maokai, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Maokai on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Karthus in team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Maokai
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect companion for Karthus that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very typical companion for Karthus. By being on the same side as Karthus, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 48.2%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Karthus and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Karthus and Maokai together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus in order to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Karthus and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Karthus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Karthus and Maokai pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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