Alistar vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Alistar
based on 779 Alistar vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Karthus Counter Build
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Core Alistar Items
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Karthus
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some vital Alistar versus Karthus counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karthus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karthus. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Karthus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Karthus
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Who is Better, Alistar or Karthus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when playing against Karthus, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a good counter for Karthus.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Karthus, when facing one another, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Alistar into Karthusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karthus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Karthus matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Alistar is an above average counter for Karthus. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Karthus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often accumulates less CS relative to Karthus. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Karthus build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Karthus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 52.1% battling Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Karthus as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Alistar vs Karthus LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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