Urgot vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Urgot
based on 910 Urgot vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Urgot vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Urgot vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Urgot
Tips for Playing as Urgot against Karthus
Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
Advice to Win Against Karthus
Karthus can cast spells for a short duration after he is killed. Move away from his corpse to be safe.
Make sure you always have enough health to survive Requiem, even if you have to go back to the base more frequently to heal.
Urgot vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Urgot in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several significant Urgot vs. Karthus matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karthus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karthus..
Urgot normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Karthus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Urgot and Karthus
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Who is Better, Urgot or Karthus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Urgot usually wins when taking on Karthus, with a 54.9% win rate. Thus, Urgot makes a great counter for Karthus.
While Urgot does have a much higher winrate than Karthus, when on opposite teams, Urgot also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Urgot into Karthusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Urgot has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karthus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Karthus matchups, Urgot is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Urgot is a great counter to Karthus. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Urgot against Karthus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Urgot to counter Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot usually picks up more CS as Karthus. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Urgot versus Karthus build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Urgot combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Karthus than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Urgot boasted an average win rate of 54.9% when playing against Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Karthus as Urgot, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Urgot vs Karthus battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.9% winrate overall.
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