Katarina vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Katarina
based on 1,705 Katarina vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Karthus
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Karthus
Karthus can cast spells for a short duration after he is killed. Move away from his corpse to be safe.
Make sure you always have enough health to survive Requiem, even if you have to go back to the base more frequently to heal.
Katarina vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several critical Katarina against Karthus counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karthus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Karthus. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Karthus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Karthus
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Who is Better, Katarina or Karthus?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually wins when facing off against Karthus, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a good counter to Karthus.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate compared to Karthus, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Karthusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karthus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Karthus matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter for Karthus. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Karthus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Karthus during both the laning 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 suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often gets more CS compared to Karthus. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Katarina versus Karthus build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Karthus than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 51.8% when playing against Karthus with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Karthus as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Katarina vs Karthus fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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