Nasus with Karthus
How to Synergize Nasus and Karthus
based on 1,395 Nasus with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Nasus vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Karthus
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus 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, Nasus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Karthus helps Nasus perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Karthus, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Karthus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside 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 with Karthus.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Karthus on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Nasus in team fights.
Synergies between Nasus and Karthus
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Karthus is a relatively poor companion for Nasus. By playing on the same side as Nasus, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Nasus and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Karthus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Nasus and Karthus together, you will not be providing your side a lot of utility. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
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
To truly master Nasus in order to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Nasus and Karthus synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nasus players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
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