Karthus vs Renekton
How to Beat Renekton as Karthus
based on 773 Karthus vs Renekton matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Renekton Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Renekton Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Karthus Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Renekton as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Renekton
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 Renekton
Keeping Renekton from being able to fight and gain Fury by continually harassing him will severely reduce the effectiveness of his abilities.
Pay close attention to Renekton's Fury gauge as that will usually signify when he is about to attack.
Karthus vs Renekton Counter Stats
How to Counter Renekton with Karthus in LoL
The stats shown here show some valuable Karthus vs. Renekton matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Renekton’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Renekton. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karthus usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Renekton. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Renekton
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Karthus or Renekton?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Renekton, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes an ok counter for Renekton.
While Karthus does have a lower win rate than Renekton, when on opposite teams, Karthus also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Karthus into Renektonas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Karthus has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Renekton. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Renekton matchups, Renekton is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karthus is a somewhat poor counter for Renekton. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Renekton.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karthus
Additional Information for Karthus Players
How We Calculated Our Karthus vs Renekton Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karthus in order to counter Renekton during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus typically racks up less CS relative to Renekton. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Karthus versus Renekton build consist of Malignance, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Renekton than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karthus had an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Renekton with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Renekton as Karthus, Karthus players 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. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Karthus vs Renekton face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
If you would like to see Karthus vs Renekton tips and counter stats for a a specific player tier, feel free to select one from the selection menu above. If viewing for the first time, the stats and build suggestions displayed are calculated using all matches finished with these champions.