Ashe vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Ashe
based on 3,347 Ashe vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ashe vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Ashe vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Ashe
Tips for Playing as Ashe against Karthus
Hawkshot reveals units in brush. If a team fight is occuring in the jungle it can give you a significant advantage.
Volley arrows are blocked by the first enemy they hit, so keep your distance to avoid having them all absorbed by enemy frontliners.
Try to fire Enchanted Crystal Arrow in the same direction enemies are moving, so it is more likely to hit.
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.
Ashe vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Ashe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several influential Ashe against Karthus counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Ashe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karthus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ashe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Karthus..
Ashe typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Karthus. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ashe and Karthus
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Who is Better, Ashe or Karthus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ashe usually fairs equally well when taking on Karthus, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Ashe makes an ok counter for Karthus.
While Ashe does have a higher win rate compared to Karthus, when they face off with one another, Ashe also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ashe into Karthus.
Additionally, Ashe has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karthus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ashe vs Karthus matchups, Ashe is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Ashe is a decent counter for Karthus. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ashe against Karthus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ashe to counter Karthus during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ashe usually accumulates more CS relative to Karthus. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Ashe versus Karthus build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Ashe combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Karthus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ashe boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Karthus with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Karthus as Ashe, Ashe players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Ashe vs Karthus fights, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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