Wukong with Karthus
How to Synergize Wukong and Karthus
based on 387 Wukong with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Wukong Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Karthus
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Advice to Understand How Karthus Will Play
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.
Wukong Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Wukong sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karthus helps Wukong perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Wukong is an ally to Karthus, he observes a sizeable uptick in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Karthus supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played together with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Karthus.
Moreover, when Wukong plays with Karthus on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Wukong in team fights.
Synergies between Wukong and Karthus
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no ideal ally for Wukong that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Karthus is a very typical teammate for Wukong. By playing on the same side as Wukong, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 48.8%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Wukong and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Wukong. That means Wukong players should be cautious when enlisting Karthus comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Wukong and Karthus together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Wukong in order to synergize with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Wukong and Karthus synergy build include Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Karthus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Wukong boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Karthus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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