Naafiri vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Naafiri
based on 612 Naafiri vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Karthus
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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.
Naafiri vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Naafiri in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some vital Naafiri versus Karthus counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karthus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Karthus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Naafiri often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Karthus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Naafiri and Karthus
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Karthus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when taking on Karthus, with a 57.0% win rate. As a result, Naafiri makes a fantastic counter to Karthus.
While Naafiri does have a much higher win rate than Karthus, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Naafiri into Karthus.
Furthermore, Naafiri also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karthus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Karthus matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Naafiri is a great counter for Karthus. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against Karthus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Naafiri in order to counter Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri on average picks up more CS compared to Karthus. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Karthus build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better against Karthus than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 57.0% when countering Karthus with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Karthus as Naafiri, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Naafiri vs Karthus battles, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 57.0% winrate overall.
If you want to see Naafiri x Karthus tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a an individual rank, feel free to choose one from the selection menu above. At first, the stats and build suggestions given are computed using all games finished with both champs.