Top · 35 games · EUW

Karthus

Top · 9% of games Bot · 40%Mid · 8%Jungle · 42%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−596 gold), and still wins 60%.

Win rate: 60.0%; ±16.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #22 of 87
Pick rate: 0.3%; ban 1.3%
Games: 35; ranked solo/duo

Karthus top wins 60.0% of 35 ranked games in EUW, rank 22 of 87 top champions (tier B). Most players finish Blackfire Torch first, at about 10:54.

The build at a glance

What most Karthus players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Blackfire Torch 11:21 · 88% · 29 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 13:18 · 100% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 19:04 · 58% · 14 games

Item 3 · late game

Rabadon's Deathcap 24:36 · 7 of 18 games

Item 4 · late game

Void Staff 29:12 · 5 of 8 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Precision 49% of games · 71% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 100% of games · 60% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 69% of games · 58% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Lay Waste first 97% of games · 62% wins Skill orders →

When Karthus wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′83% wins17% of games · 6

Lasts 25′ or more63% wins54% of games · 19

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Karthus games

First Baron: 77% against 31%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 31% 77% +47

Rift Herald 53% 69% +16

First dragon 53% 65% +12

First blood 57% 62% +5

First Voidgrubs 57% 62% +5

First tower 58% 63% +5

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Karthus plays

Fewer control wards, more assists

What stands out (10% or more) against the average top laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer control wards a game0.06 against 0.42 · −86%

More assists a game9.0 against 5.3 · +68%

More deaths a game8.8 against 5.9 · +50%

More time spent dead9.8s against 6.6s a minute · +49%

More damage a minute1137 against 794 · +43%

About average: solo kills, minions, gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~10:54

Item 2done ~18:48

Item 3done ~25:00

Item 4done ~29:36

Most common full builds

Blackfire Torch › Shadowflame › Sorcerer's Shoes › Rabadon's Deathcap 50.0%4 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Shadowflame 50%6

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion60.0%35

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:1860.0%35

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash58.3%24

Flash + Ignite50.0%6

Exhaust + Teleport100.0%2

Skills

Max

W61.8%34

Max

E0.0%1

Start

Q51.9%27

Start

W100.0%7

Dies more than most top laners

Before 14 minutes Karthus dies 3.7 times a game (average 2.4). 28% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 38% for the average top laner. 65% are fair 1-v-1s.

3.7deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.4)

28%involve the enemy junglerless than average (38%)

35%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (48%)

92%with no teammate nearmore than average (84%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Karthus dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

Ganks: 50% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 44% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 55% in your half of top lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average top laner

What kills Karthus

Kind of death

Karthus Average

Gank 28% (avg 38%)Collapse 7% (avg 9%)1-v-1 65% (avg 52%)

Who gets the kill

Karthus Average

Bot laner 0% (avg 2%)Jungler 17% (avg 24%)Support 2% (avg 3%)Mid laner 5% (avg 7%)Top laner 74% (avg 64%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 6:00 and 8:00–10:00

Karthus Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 6:00 and 8:00.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Karthus; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Karthus wins fights

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 0.6 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.4 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.6 kills per death.

Your half of top lane 0.4 K/D 26 / 69

Their half of top lane 0.6 K/D 30 / 50

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Karthus wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 12% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 67% when Karthus is there and 70% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 18:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 50% against 50%; for Karthus it is 70% against 56%.

Karthus

What most Karthus players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 77% against 31%

Fewer control wards, more assists

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Karthus's games

Dies more than most top laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Karthus

Ganks come at 6:00 and 8:00–10:00

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Where fights happen

Where fights happen