Karthus with Soraka
How to Synergize Karthus and Soraka
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Karthus Soraka Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Karthus Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Soraka helps Karthus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is an ally to Soraka, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Soraka does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played alongside Soraka 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 alongside Soraka.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Soraka on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Soraka does a poor job of covering Karthus during teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Soraka
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Karthus that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Soraka is a terrible ally for Karthus. By being on the same team as Karthus, she decreases their win rate by -3.7% to 43.6%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Karthus and Soraka that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be very careful when lining up Soraka allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Karthus players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Karthus and Soraka together, you may not be giving your other allies much attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to synergize with Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Karthus and Soraka synergy build include Malignance, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Soraka than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 43.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 43.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Soraka with Karthus are presented for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.