Karthus vs Fizz
How to Beat Fizz as Karthus
based on 2,388 Karthus vs Fizz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Fizz Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Fizz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Fizz as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Fizz
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 Fizz
Fizz's attacks becomes more deadly for a few seconds after he uses his empowered attack - keep him away while his trident is glowing!
Fizz is a slippery target when his abilities are not on cooldown - bait him into using them early and follow up with crowd control or hard-hitting attacks!
Karthus vs Fizz Counter Stats
How to Counter Fizz with Karthus in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several important Karthus versus Fizz counter statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Fizz’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Fizz..
Karthus usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Fizz. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Fizz
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Karthus or Fizz?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when trying to fight Fizz, with a 45.6% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a bad counter to Fizz.
While Karthus does have a much lower win rate than Fizz, when they face off with one another, Karthus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karthus into Fizzas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Karthus has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fizz. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Fizz matchups, Fizz is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Karthus is a garbage counter for Fizz. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karthus against Fizz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karthus in order to counter Fizz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus often gets less CS as Fizz. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Karthus versus Fizz build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Void Staff. When Karthus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Fizz than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus had an average winrate of 45.6% when playing against Fizz with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Fizz as Karthus, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Karthus vs Fizz counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.6% winrate overall.
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