Karthus with Tristana
How to Synergize Karthus and Tristana
based on 1,608 Karthus with Tristana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Karthus Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tristana helps Karthus perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Tristana, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Tristana does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Tristana 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 synergisticly with Tristana.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Tristana on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Karthus during team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Tristana
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no perfect synergy for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Tristana is a top-tier teammate for Karthus. By playing on the same team as Karthus, she raises their win rate by 4.7% to 52.0%. This shows that there is a strong bond between Karthus and Tristana that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tristana has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Tristana teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Karthus and Tristana together, you will not be granting your other allies very much support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 truly master Karthus in order to synergize with Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Karthus and Tristana synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Karthus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Tristana than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 52.0% helping carry Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Karthus players 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 sets that we analyzed for Karthus and Tristana pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.0% win rate overall.
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