Karthus vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Karthus
based on 777 Karthus vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Xayah
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 Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Karthus vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several important Karthus versus Xayah matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Xayah..
Karthus often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Xayah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Xayah
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Who is Better, Karthus or Xayah?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karthus usually wins when playing against Xayah, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Karthus makes a good counter for Xayah.
While Karthus does have a higher winrate than Xayah, when facing one another, Karthus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karthus into Xayahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Karthus has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Xayah matchups, Karthus is the better champ with a similar 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 to Xayah. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karthus against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to counter Xayah during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus on average gets less CS relative to Xayah. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Karthus versus Xayah build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Xayah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when countering Xayah with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Xayah 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 builds we have analyed for Karthus vs Xayah counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.0% winrate overall.
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