Karthus vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Karthus
based on 682 Karthus vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Lulu Counter Build
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Core Karthus Items
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Lulu
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 Lulu
Lulu excels when opponents heavily commit. Don't give her this chance! Use heavy harass tactics instead to force Lulu and her partner out of lane.
The shots from Lulu's faerie can be intercepted - hide behind your minions to avoid the additional Faerie attacks.
Karthus vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Karthus against Lulu counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lulu’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lulu. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Karthus often has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Lulu. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Lulu
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Who is Better, Karthus or Lulu?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually wins when playing against Lulu, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a good counter for Lulu.
While Karthus does have a higher win rate than Lulu, when facing one another, Karthus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Karthus into Luluas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Karthus has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Lulu matchups, Karthus is the better champ with a higher 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 decent counter for Lulu. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Lulu.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karthus
Additional Information for Karthus Players
How We Calculated Our Karthus vs Lulu Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karthus to counter Lulu 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus often racks up much more CS as Lulu. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Karthus versus Lulu build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Karthus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Lulu than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus had an average winrate of 51.9% when countering Lulu with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Lulu as Karthus, Karthus players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Karthus vs Lulu clashes, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
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