Karthus vs Urgot
How to Beat Urgot as Karthus
based on 910 Karthus vs Urgot matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Urgot Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Urgot Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Urgot as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Urgot
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 Urgot
If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
Karthus vs Urgot Counter Stats
How to Counter Urgot with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some influential Karthus vs. Urgot counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Urgot’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Urgot. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karthus usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Urgot. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Urgot
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Who is Better, Karthus or Urgot?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually loses when taking on Urgot, with a 45.1% win rate. Therefore, Karthus makes a poor counter for Urgot.
While Karthus does have a much lower win rate compared to Urgot, when they face off with one another, Karthus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karthus into Urgotas his relative depth means 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 Urgot. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Urgot matchups, Urgot is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Karthus is a garbage counter to Urgot. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karthus against Urgot.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karthus in order to counter Urgot 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 above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus usually gets less CS relative to Urgot. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Karthus versus Urgot build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Urgot than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 45.1% when playing against Urgot with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Urgot as Karthus, Karthus players should use 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 runes players picked for Karthus vs Urgot matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.1% win rate overall.
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