target marked by Valor will put Harrier on cooldown. Quickly consuming Harrier marks will allow you to generate them faster.
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Use Behind Enemy Lines for traveling very long distances quickly, for farming minions around the map, or for chasing wounded targets.
Vault is powerful but must be used with caution, as enemies can attack Quinn when she strikes them. Vault can sometimes be used to cross terrain if your back is to a wall.
Make sure you always have enough health to survive Requiem, even if you have to go back to the base more frequently to heal.
Karthus can cast spells for a short duration after he is killed. Move away from his corpse to be safe.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some influential Quinn vs. Karthus counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Quinn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karthus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Quinn may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Karthus..
Quinn often has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Karthus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Quinn usually fairs equally well when facing off against Karthus, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Quinn makes an ok counter to Karthus.
While Quinn does have a lower winrate than Karthus, when facing one another, Quinn also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Quinn into Karthus.
Additionally, Quinn has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karthus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Quinn vs Karthus matchups, Karthus is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Quinn is a somewhat poor counter to Karthus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Quinn against Karthus.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Quinn in order to counter Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Quinn often racks up a similar amount of CS as Karthus. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Quinn versus Karthus build consist of Kraken Slayer, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Quinn used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Karthus than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Quinn boasted an average winrate of 49.8% battling Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Karthus as Quinn, Quinn players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Quinn vs Karthus battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Karthus as Quinn are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.