Karthus vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Karthus
based on 1,373 Karthus vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Karthus vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Karthus against Soraka matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Soraka. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Karthus often has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Soraka. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Soraka
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Who is Better, Karthus or Soraka?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when trying to fight Soraka, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Karthus makes a poor counter to Soraka.
While Karthus does have a lower winrate than Soraka, when facing one another, Karthus also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Karthus into Sorakaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Karthus also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Soraka matchups, Soraka 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 for Soraka. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karthus against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus in order to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus usually picks up much more CS compared to Soraka. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Karthus versus Soraka build consist of Malignance, Morellonomicon, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Soraka than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when playing against Soraka with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Soraka as Karthus, you should take 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 players used for Karthus vs Soraka counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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