Yone with Karthus
How to Synergize Yone and Karthus
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Yone Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yone and Karthus
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.
Yone Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Yone in LoL
The Yone 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, Yone 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 drop shows that Karthus helps Yone perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yone is paired with Karthus, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Karthus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Yone is played together with Karthus on the same team, 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.
Moreover, when Yone plays with Karthus on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Yone in team fights.
Synergies between Yone and Karthus
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Is Yone better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect companion for Yone that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Karthus is a relatively poor teammate for Yone. By locking into the same side as Yone, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Yone and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Yone. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Karthus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Yone and Karthus together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Yone to pair well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Yone and Karthus synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Kraken Slayer. When Yone combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Karthus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Yone boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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