Akshan vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Akshan
based on 943 Akshan vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Karthus
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Karthus
Karthus can cast spells for a short duration after he is killed. Move away from his corpse to be safe.
Make sure you always have enough health to survive Requiem, even if you have to go back to the base more frequently to heal.
Akshan vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several critical Akshan against Karthus matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karthus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Karthus..
Akshan usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Karthus. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Karthus
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Who is Better, Akshan or Karthus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually wins when trying to fight Karthus, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a good counter to Karthus.
While Akshan does have a higher win rate than Karthus, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Akshan into Karthus.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karthus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Karthus matchups, Akshan is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Akshan is an above average counter for Karthus. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Karthus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average gets more CS as Karthus. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Akshan versus Karthus build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better versus Karthus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 52.5% battling Karthus with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Karthus as Akshan, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Akshan vs Karthus fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
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