Support · 37 games

KarthusSupport build & runes

Support · 2% of games Mid · 6%Top · 7%Bot · 32%Jungle · 53%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+292 gold).

Win rate: 35.1%; ±15.4 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: —; too few games to rank
Pick rate: 0.1%; ban 2.6%
Games: 37; ranked solo/duo

Karthus support wins 35.1% of 37 ranked games. Most players finish Blackfire Torch first, at about 12:18.

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 12:29 · 91% · 31 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 14:24 · 92% of games

Item 2

Liandry's Torment 21:38 · 58% · 11 games

Item 3 · late game

Shadowflame 28:00 · 6 of 18 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Precision 30% of games · 55% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 95% of games · 34% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 73% of games · 44% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Lay Waste first 86% of games · 31% 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.

Lasts 25′ or more34% wins78% of games · 29

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below Karthus's own win rate (35.1%). Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Karthus games

First Baron: 79% against 9%

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

First Baron 9% 79% +70

First tower 18% 60% +42

Rift Herald 18% 60% +42

First dragon 21% 50% +29

First blood 35% 36% +1

First Voidgrubs 38% 31% −7

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 multikills, more solo kills

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

More multikills a game0.62 against 0.09 · +589%

More solo kills a game0.8 against 0.2 · +265%

More damage a minute1077 against 366 · +194%

More share of team damage25% against 10% · +141%

More deaths a game12.0 against 6.0 · +101%

About average: damage to towers, kill participation.

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 ~12:12

Item 2done ~20:54

Item 3done ~27:54

Item 4done ~33:48

Most common full builds

Sorcerer's Shoes › Blackfire Torch › Liandry's Torment › Shadowflame 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

Shadowflame 50%6

Liandry's Torment 40%5

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

Health Potion + Health Potion34.3%35

Amplifying Tome + Health Potion + Health Potion0.0%1

Health Potion100.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~14:2435.3%34

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash44.4%27

Flash + Ignite0.0%7

Exhaust + Ignite50.0%2

Skills

Max

W31.3%32

Max

E50.0%4

Start

Q30.0%20

Start

W22.2%9

Dies more than most supports

Before 14 minutes Karthus dies 5.2 times a game (average 2.6). 34% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 46% for the average support. 15% are fair 1-v-1s.

5.2deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.6)

34%involve the enemy junglerless than average (46%)

85%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (90%)

24%with no teammate nearabout average (26%)

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 bot lane

Ganks: 35% in their half of bot lane. Collapses: 41% in their half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 48% in their half of bot 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 support

What kills Karthus

Kind of death

Karthus Average

Gank 34% (avg 46%)Collapse 51% (avg 44%)1-v-1 15% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Karthus Average

Bot laner 46% (avg 42%)Jungler 19% (avg 25%)Support 23% (avg 15%)Mid laner 11% (avg 15%)Top laner 1% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Karthus Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

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 bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Before 14 minutes: 0.6 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.4 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.5 kills per death.

Their half of bot lane 0.6 K/D 45 / 77

Your half of bot lane 0.4 K/D 22 / 57

The bot-side river 0.4 K/D 9 / 21

Your jungle 0.4 K/D 4 / 11

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 50% of their team's dragon takes (average support 49%). The team wins 59% when Karthus is there and 56% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 12:00 (average 11:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 52% against 44%; for Karthus it is 32% against 40%.

KarthusSupport build & runes

What most Karthus players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 79% against 9%

More multikills, more solo kills

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 supports

Ganks and collapses both hit their half of bot lane

What kills Karthus

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00, then every minute

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

Wins fights in your half of bot lane, loses them in your jungle

Where fights happen