Karthus vs Draven
How to Beat Draven as Karthus
based on 1,576 Karthus vs Draven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Draven Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Draven as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Draven
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 Draven
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Karthus vs Draven Counter Stats
How to Counter Draven with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several strategic Karthus vs. Draven counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Draven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Draven..
Karthus typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Draven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Draven
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Who is Better, Karthus or Draven?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when facing off against Draven, with a 44.0% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a poor counter for Draven.
While Karthus does have a much lower win rate than Draven, when facing one another, Karthus also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Karthus into Dravenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Draven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Draven matchups, Draven is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karthus is a terribly counter for Draven. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Draven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to counter Draven during both the lane 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 will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus often accumulates less CS compared to Draven. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Karthus versus Draven build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Karthus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Draven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 44.0% battling Draven with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Draven as Karthus, Karthus players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Karthus vs Draven fights, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.0% winrate overall.
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