Naafiri with Karthus
How to Synergize Naafiri and Karthus
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Naafiri Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Karthus
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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.
Naafiri Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Naafiri perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri plays on the same team as Karthus, they sees a small increase in their complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Karthus helps provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Karthus.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Karthus on the same side, they typically takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Naafiri in team fights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect ally for Naafiri that will no matter what be their ideal teammate. However, Karthus is a very bad companion for Naafiri. By locking into the same side as Naafiri, he decreases their win rate by -3.4% to 46.8%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Naafiri and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players must be very careful when lining up Karthus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Naafiri and Karthus together, you probably will not be granting your team much protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Naafiri to pair well with Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Naafiri and Karthus synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better when paired up with Karthus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Naafiri players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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