Karthus vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Karthus
based on 346 Karthus vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Elise Counter Build
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Core Karthus Items
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Guide to Countering Elise as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Karthus vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Karthus in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several important Karthus against Elise matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Elise..
Karthus normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Elise. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Elise
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Karthus or Elise?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when taking on Elise, with a 45.4% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a bad counter for Elise.
While Karthus does have a much lower win rate compared to Elise, when facing one another, Karthus also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karthus into Eliseas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Elise matchups, Elise 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 Elise. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Karthus against Elise.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karthus
Additional Information for Karthus Players
How We Calculated Our Karthus vs Elise Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus most often gets more CS compared to Elise. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Karthus versus Elise build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Elise than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 45.4% battling Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Elise as Karthus, you 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Karthus vs Elise battles, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Elise as Karthus are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.