Karthus vs Galio
How to Beat Galio as Karthus
based on 1,310 Karthus vs Galio matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Galio Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Galio Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Galio as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Galio
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 Galio
Galio cannot traverse walls with Justice Punch.
Galio moves slower when he is charging Shield of Durand.
Hero's Entrance can be interrupted before Galio jumps into the air.
Karthus vs Galio Counter Stats
How to Counter Galio with Karthus in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several significant Karthus against Galio counter stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Galio’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Galio..
Karthus normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Galio. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Galio
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Who is Better, Karthus or Galio?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually loses when facing off against Galio, with a 44.7% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a bad counter for Galio.
While Karthus does have a much lower win rate compared to Galio, when facing one another, Karthus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Karthus into Galioas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Karthus has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Galio. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Karthus is a garbage counter to Galio. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Karthus against Galio.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karthus to counter Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus often racks up less CS as Galio. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Karthus versus Galio build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Karthus included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Galio than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 44.7% battling Galio with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Galio as Karthus, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Karthus vs Galio counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.7% win rate overall.
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