Karthus vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Karthus
based on 3,172 Karthus vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Karthus vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Karthus against Brand matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Brand..
Karthus typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Brand. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Brand
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Who is Better, Karthus or Brand?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually loses when playing against Brand, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Karthus makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Karthus does have a lower winrate compared to Brand, when on opposite teams, Karthus also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karthus into Brandas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karthus is a garbage counter for Brand. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karthus against Brand.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karthus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karthus in order to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Brand. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Karthus versus Brand build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when countering Brand with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Brand as Karthus, you 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 Brand counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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