Karthus vs Naafiri Counter Pick

The difficulty ratings do most of the explaining. Naafiri is rated 2, among the most forgiving kits in the game, while Karthus is a 7 whose damage depends on placing delayed blasts accurately. Over 504 games on patch 16.13.1 that asymmetry reads as 43.1% for him: a matchup asking one player for precision and the other for a straight commitment tends to settle this way.

Her damage is physical, so the magic resistance Karthus would otherwise want is wasted, and his 21 base armor rising to only 100.9 at level 18 is the softest part of his profile. We Are More sends packmates at whatever she attacks, so burst arrives from several sources at once, and Darkin Daggers applies bleed before Hounds’ Pursuit closes the distance. At 340 movement speed she is five units quicker on foot and carries two dashes on top of that.

The window he has is a slow one. Wall of Pain cuts movement speed and magic resistance for anything crossing it, and placed at the mouth of a camp it strips the speed The Call of the Pack grants. Defile punishes a pack that stays on him, and Death Defied lets a Requiem finish after he falls — Naafiri ends at 610 base health and 2,395 at level 18, inside execute range more often than her damage output suggests.