Karthus with Mordekaiser
How to Synergize Karthus and Mordekaiser
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Karthus Mordekaiser Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Mordekaiser
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 Mordekaiser Will Play
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
Karthus Mordekaiser Synergy Stats
How to Play with Mordekaiser as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Mordekaiser synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Mordekaiser, 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 Mordekaiser. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Mordekaiser helps Karthus perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Mordekaiser, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Mordekaiser does not provide protection 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 Mordekaiser on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Mordekaiser.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Mordekaiser on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Mordekaiser does a poor job of covering Karthus in team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Mordekaiser
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Mordekaiser?
There is no top ally for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Mordekaiser is a decent companion for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 49.3%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Karthus and Mordekaiser that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Mordekaiser has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be cautious when lining up Mordekaiser teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Karthus players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Karthus and Mordekaiser together, you probably will not be giving your team very much AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Mordekaiser ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karthus in order to synergize with Mordekaiser during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Karthus and Mordekaiser synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Mordekaiser than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus had an average winrate of 49.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Mordekaiser with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Karthus players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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