Karthus vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Karthus
based on 1,302 Karthus vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Karthus vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Karthus in LoL
The stats provided here show several critical Karthus against Irelia matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karthus typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Irelia
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Who is Better, Karthus or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when playing against Irelia, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a poor counter to Irelia.
While Karthus does have a lower win rate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Karthus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Karthus into Ireliaas 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 Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karthus is a terribly counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Irelia.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karthus
Additional Information for Karthus Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus on average racks up less CS compared to Irelia. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Karthus versus Irelia build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Karthus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Irelia than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 47.5% battling Irelia with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Irelia as Karthus, Karthus players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Karthus vs Irelia counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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