Karthus vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Karthus
based on 967 Karthus vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Kindred Counter Build
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Core Karthus Items
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Karthus vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several influential Karthus against Kindred matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kindred’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kindred..
Karthus often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kindred. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Kindred
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Karthus or Kindred?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when playing against Kindred, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a bad counter for Kindred.
While Karthus does have a lower win rate compared to Kindred, when on opposite teams, Karthus also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karthus into Kindredas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Kindred matchups, Kindred is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Karthus is a terribly counter to Kindred. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Kindred.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karthus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karthus to counter Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus usually gets more CS relative to Kindred. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, 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 surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Karthus versus Kindred build consist of Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Kindred than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 47.8% battling Kindred with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Kindred 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 sets that we analyzed for Karthus vs Kindred counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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