Karthus vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Karthus
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Karthus vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Karthus vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Karthus in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several important Karthus versus Lee Sin counter stats that may help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lee Sin..
Karthus typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Karthus or Lee Sin?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually loses when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Karthus makes a poor counter to Lee Sin.
While Karthus does have a lower winrate compared to Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Karthus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karthus into Lee Sinas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Lee Sin matchups, Lee Sin is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karthus is a trash counter to Lee Sin. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus in order to counter Lee Sin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus on average picks up more CS relative to Lee Sin. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Karthus versus Lee Sin build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Karthus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Lee Sin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when countering Lee Sin with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Lee Sin 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for Karthus vs Lee Sin counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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