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The stat comparisons shown here feature several strategic Karthus against Xerath matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xerath. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in deaths.
Karthus normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Xerath. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karthus usually loses when trying to fight Xerath, with a 43.5% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes a poor counter to Xerath.
While Karthus does have a much lower winrate than Xerath, when they face off with one another, Karthus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karthus into Xerathas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Karthus also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Karthus is a bad counter to Xerath. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing 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 Xerath.
To truly master Karthus to counter Xerath during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus most often gets a similar amount of CS as Xerath. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Karthus versus Xerath build include Angústia de Liandry, Capuz da Morte de Rabadon, and Cajado do Vazio. When Karthus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Xerath than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 43.5% when playing against Xerath with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Xerath as Karthus, Karthus players should take the Colheita Sombria, Golpe Desleal, Globos Oculares, Caça Suprema, Presença de Espírito, and Até a Morte runes from the Dominação and Precisão rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Karthus vs Xerath counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 43.5% winrate overall.
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