Vex vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Vex
based on 888 Vex vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Vex
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.
Vex vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Vex in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Vex versus Karthus matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karthus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Karthus..
Vex often has a similar longest killing spree as their foe does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Karthus. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vex and Karthus
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Who is Better, Vex or Karthus?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually wins when facing off against Karthus, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Vex makes a good counter for Karthus.
While Vex does have a higher win rate compared to Karthus, when on opposite teams, Vex also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Vex into Karthus.
Moreover, Vex also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karthus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vex vs Karthus matchups, Vex is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vex is a decent counter for Karthus. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vex against Karthus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vex to counter Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex on average gets more CS compared to Karthus. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Vex versus Karthus build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs Karthus than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Vex boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when countering Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Karthus as Vex, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Vex vs Karthus matchups, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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