Karthus vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Karthus
based on 592 Karthus vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Karthus vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Karthus in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several important Karthus vs. Lissandra matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lissandra..
Karthus typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Lissandra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Karthus or Lissandra?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually wins when playing against Lissandra, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a good counter to Lissandra.
While Karthus does have a higher winrate compared to Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Karthus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Karthus into Lissandraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Karthus also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Lissandra matchups, Karthus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Karthus is an above average counter to Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karthus against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karthus to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus often racks up less CS as Lissandra. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Karthus versus Lissandra build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Lissandra than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 52.2% battling Lissandra with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Lissandra as Karthus, you should take 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 runes players picked for Karthus vs Lissandra clashes, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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