Karthus vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Karthus
based on 1,452 Karthus vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Karthus vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several significant Karthus against Rakan matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Karthus normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Rakan
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Who is Better, Karthus or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Karthus does have a lower winrate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, Karthus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Karthus into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Karthus is a terribly counter for Rakan. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karthus to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus most often gets more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Karthus versus Rakan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Karthus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Rakan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 46.5% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Rakan as Karthus, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Karthus vs Rakan LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
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