Karthus vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Karthus
based on 745 Karthus vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Poppy Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Karthus Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Poppy
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 Poppy
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
Karthus vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some strategic Karthus against Poppy counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between this set of champs. Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Poppy. This observation is largely caused by the differences in deaths.
Karthus typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Poppy. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Poppy
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Karthus or Poppy?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when taking on Poppy, with a 46.6% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a bad counter for Poppy.
While Karthus does have a lower win rate than Poppy, when facing one another, Karthus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karthus into Poppyas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This 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 Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karthus is a terribly counter to Poppy. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Karthus against Poppy.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karthus
Additional Information for Karthus Players
How We Calculated Our Karthus vs Poppy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus in order to counter Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Poppy. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Karthus versus Poppy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Poppy than with most other common builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 46.6% battling Poppy with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Poppy as Karthus, you 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 builds we have analyed for Karthus vs Poppy clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
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