Karthus vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Karthus
based on 477 Karthus vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Taric Counter Build
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Core Karthus Items
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Guide to Countering Taric as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Karthus vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several important Karthus against Taric matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taric. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Karthus normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Taric
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Who is Better, Karthus or Taric?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 41.5% win rate. Therefore, Karthus makes a bad counter to Taric.
While Karthus does have a much lower win rate than Taric, when facing one another, Karthus also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Karthus into Taricas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Karthus has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karthus is a terribly counter for Taric. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Karthus against Taric.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karthus
Additional Information for Karthus Players
How We Calculated Our Karthus vs Taric Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karthus to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus on average picks up more CS as Taric. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts 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 displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Karthus versus Taric build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Karthus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Taric than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 41.5% when countering Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Taric as Karthus, you should equip 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 players chose for Karthus vs Taric counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 41.5% win rate overall.
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