Mid · 42 games

Karthus

Mid · 6% of games Bot · 36%Top · 6%Jungle · 51%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+34 gold).

Win rate: 45.2%; ±15.1 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #52 of 81
Pick rate: 0.2%; ban 3.3%
Games: 42; ranked solo/duo

Karthus mid wins 45.2% of 42 ranked games, rank 52 of 81 mid champions (tier C). Most players finish Blackfire Torch first, at about 9:54.

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 10:08 · 100% · 42 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 11:42 · 98% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 19:06 · 43% · 15 games

Item 3 · late game

Liandry's Torment 24:24 · 6 of 26 games

Item 4 · late game

Rabadon's Deathcap 26:30 · 3 of 10 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Precision 29% of games · 50% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 100% of games · 45% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 81% of games · 44% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Lay Waste first 98% of games · 46% 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′27% wins36% of games · 15

Lasts 25′ or more54% wins57% of games · 24

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: 75% against 18%

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

First Baron 18% 75% +57

First dragon 16% 70% +54

First tower 21% 57% +36

Rift Herald 38% 56% +18

First blood 37% 52% +15

First Voidgrubs 45% 45% +0

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

More damage, more time spent dead

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

More damage a minute1314 against 839 · +57%

More time spent dead9.0s against 6.0s a minute · +50%

More deaths a game8.1 against 5.5 · +48%

Fewer control wards a game0.55 against 1.01 · −46%

More assists a game8.7 against 6.2 · +41%

About average: vision, gold, minions.

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 ~9:54

Item 2done ~18:18

Item 3done ~23:18

Item 4done ~27:36

Most common full builds

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Stormsurge › Liandry's Torment 40.0%5 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Stormsurge › Shadowflame 75.0%4 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Stormsurge 66.7%3 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

Stormsurge 44%9

Shadowflame 43%7

Liandry's Torment 33%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 Potion45.2%42

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~11:4246.3%41

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash44.1%34

Flash + Ignite80.0%5

Exhaust + Ignite0.0%2

Skills

Max

W46.3%41

Max

W0.0%1

Start

Q47.2%36

Start

W50.0%4

Dies more than most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Karthus dies 3.3 times a game (average 2.2). 54% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 29% are fair 1-v-1s.

3.3deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.2)

54%involve the enemy junglermore than average (50%)

71%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (67%)

68%with no teammate nearmore than average (61%)

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 their half of mid

Ganks: 28% in their half of mid. Collapses: 38% in their half of mid. 1-v-1s: 61% in their half of mid.

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 mid laner

What kills Karthus

Kind of death

Karthus Average

Gank 54% (avg 50%)Collapse 17% (avg 17%)1-v-1 29% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Karthus Average

Bot laner 9% (avg 7%)Jungler 26% (avg 28%)Support 7% (avg 7%)Mid laner 53% (avg 54%)Top laner 4% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 2:00 and 6:00–10:00

Karthus Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 2:00 and 6:00.

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 jungle, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 1.3 kills per death in their jungle against 0.4 in your half of mid. Overall 1.0 kills per death.

Their half of mid 0.9 K/D 48 / 55

Your half of mid 0.4 K/D 11 / 27

Their jungle 1.3 K/D 18 / 14

The bot-side river 0.9 K/D 14 / 16

Their half of bot lane 3.8 K/D 15 / 4

The top-side river 0.5 K/D 6 / 13

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 35% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 75% when Karthus is there and 67% when not.

Karthus

What most Karthus players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 75% against 18%

More damage, more time spent dead

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 mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit their half of mid

What kills Karthus

Ganks come at 2:00 and 6:00–10:00

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Where fights happen