Nami with Karthus
How to Synergize Nami and Karthus
based on 1,331 Nami with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nami Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Nami vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Nami with Karthus
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Nami in LoL
The Nami Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nami sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Nami perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nami is an ally to Karthus, she observes a little drop in her complete damage output. This could indicate that Karthus does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played alongside Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Karthus.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Karthus on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Nami during team fights.
Synergies between Nami and Karthus
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Is Nami better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nami that will no matter what be her best ally. However, overall, Karthus is a terrible companion for Nami. By playing on the same side as Nami, he lowers their win rate by -4.4% to 44.7%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Nami and Karthus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Karthus allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Nami and Karthus together, you probably will not be giving your side very much tankyness. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami in order to work well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Nami and Karthus synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Karthus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 44.7% helping carry Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.7% win rate overall.
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