Karthus vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Karthus
based on 1,362 Karthus vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Ahri
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Karthus vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several critical Karthus against Ahri counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ahri..
Karthus usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Ahri. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Ahri
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Who is Better, Karthus or Ahri?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually fairs equally well when taking on Ahri, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Karthus makes an ok counter to Ahri.
While Karthus does have a higher win rate than Ahri, when facing one another, Karthus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Karthus into Ahrias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Karthus also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Ahri matchups, Karthus is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Karthus is a decent counter to Ahri. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karthus against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karthus in order to counter Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus on average gets less CS relative to Ahri. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Karthus versus Ahri build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Karthus used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Ahri than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing against Ahri with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Ahri as Karthus, Karthus players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Karthus vs Ahri battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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