Alistar vs Karthus Counter Build
How to Beat Karthus as Alistar
Summary
We generate our counter stats from the millions of ranked LoL rounds that we analyze each week. This Alistar versus Karthus counter guide resulted from an examination of 2,592 ranked matches where both champions battled one another.
This particular champ matchup is fairly rare. Alistar is forced to battle against Karthus in only 0.8% of his rounds. Alistar does a great job of countering Karthus. Normally, Alistar wins a terrific 54.0% of games the champions oppose each other in. In Alistar against Karthus rounds, Alistar’s team is 3.0% more expected to obtain first blood, implying that he probably will be able to get first blood versus Karthus.
Matchups Analyzed
Win Rate
Team First Blood
Best Alistar Items to Counter Karthus
The best items to focus on in your Alistar versus Karthus build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Karthus than with most other commonly used builds.
Best Alistar Runes to Counter Karthus
To have the highest probability of defeating Karthus as Alistar, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Hextech Flashtraption, and Biscuit Delivery runes. Out of all the runes players picked for Alistar vs Karthus fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. We have also displayed the best Karthus runes to fend off Alistar in order to help you understand how he will likely be built to try to beat your champ.
Best Alistar Runes
Phase Rush
Nimbus Cloak
Celerity
Waterwalking
Hextech Flashtraption
Biscuit DeliveryBest Karthus Runes
Dark Harvest
Taste of Blood
Eyeball Collection
Ravenous Hunter
Presence of Mind
Last StandStats
The subsequent tables underscore several strategic Alistar against Karthus matchup stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of 2.6 is nearly equal to Karthus’s ratio of 2.3, demonstrating that Alistar may be just as central to his team's team fighting potential than Karthus. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in kills assists.
Battle Stats
Kills
Deaths
Assists
Largest Killing Spree
Damage Dealt
Damage Taken
Objective Stats
Towers Destroyed
Inhibitors Destroyed
Dragons Killed
Barons Killed
Gold Earned
Minions Killed
Alistar typically has a significant smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, Alistar takes a similar amount of damage to Karthus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Alistar usually earns much less CS than Karthus. Champs that do not amass a lot of minion kills usually don't need much CS to be useful. Instead, they are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities alone. However, champs with plenty of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of gold to be useful. In either situation, work to best the averages presented here to do well.
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How We Analyze Our Matchups
For this counter guide, we analyzed 2592 Alistar vs Karthus matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Karthus as Alistar comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.