Karthus with Xayah
How to Synergize Karthus and Xayah
based on 644 Karthus with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Karthus Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xayah helps Karthus perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Xayah, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may signal that Xayah does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Xayah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xayah.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Xayah on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Xayah does a poor job of covering Karthus in team fights.
Synergies between Karthus and Xayah
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Xayah is a terrible ally for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, she lowers their win rate by -3.2% to 44.1%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Karthus and Xayah that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be careful when lining up Xayah allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Karthus and Xayah together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xayah ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 synergize with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Karthus and Xayah synergy build consist of Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Xayah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 44.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Karthus players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.1% win rate overall.
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