Soraka with Karthus
How to Synergize Soraka and Karthus
based on 1,058 Soraka with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Soraka Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Soraka vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Soraka and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Soraka with Karthus
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Soraka in LoL
The Soraka 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, Soraka sees a very large drop in her 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 Soraka perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Soraka is an ally to Karthus, she sees a little drop in her full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Karthus does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Karthus.
Additionally, when Soraka plays with Karthus on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of covering Soraka during team fights.
Synergies between Soraka and Karthus
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Is Soraka better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no ideal synergy for Soraka that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, Karthus is a very bad teammate for Soraka. By locking into the same side as Soraka, he drops their win rate by -5.8% to 43.6%. This shows that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Soraka and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Soraka. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Karthus teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Soraka players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Soraka and Karthus together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 Soraka to synergize with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Soraka and Karthus synergy build consist of Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Karthus than with many other common builds. In fact, Soraka boasted an average winrate of 43.6% helping carry Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Soraka and Karthus pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.6% winrate overall.
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