Karthus vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Karthus
based on 779 Karthus vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Alistar
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.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Karthus vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some vital Karthus vs. Alistar matchup stats that may help us realize the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Karthus often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Alistar
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Who is Better, Karthus or Alistar?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when playing against Alistar, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Karthus makes a poor counter to Alistar.
While Karthus does have a lower winrate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Karthus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karthus into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Karthus also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Karthus is a bad counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karthus against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karthus in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus often accumulates more CS compared to Alistar. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Karthus versus Alistar build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Karthus bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 47.9% battling Alistar with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Alistar as Karthus, Karthus players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Karthus vs Alistar clashes, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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