Top · 49 games

Karthus

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

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+324 gold).

Win rate: 65.3%; ±13.3 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: A; #9 of 95
Pick rate: 0.3%; ban 3.3%
Games: 49; ranked solo/duo

Karthus top wins 65.3% of 49 ranked games, rank 9 of 95 top champions (tier A). Most players finish Blackfire Torch first, at about 10:00.

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 10:17 · 100% · 47 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 13:30 · 88% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 17:01 · 53% · 19 games

Item 3 · late game

Zhonya's Hourglass 27:42 · 6 of 25 games

Item 4 · late game

Void Staff 27:36 · 4 of 8 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Precision 35% of games · 65% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 92% of games · 67% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 45% of games · 73% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Lay Waste first 94% of games · 67% 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′75% wins41% of games · 20

Lasts 25′ or more64% wins51% of games · 25

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

Rift Herald: 91% against 42%

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

Rift Herald 42% 91% +49

First tower 41% 78% +37

First Baron 45% 81% +36

First dragon 60% 69% +9

First blood 62% 70% +8

First Voidgrubs 72% 61% −11

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 top laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More multikills a game0.65 against 0.41 · +59%

More solo kills a game3.1 against 2.1 · +51%

More time spent dead9.6s against 6.4s a minute · +50%

More damage a minute1148 against 775 · +48%

More assists a game7.7 against 5.2 · +48%

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 ~10:06

Item 2done ~17:42

Item 3done ~24:06

Item 4done ~27:36

Most common full builds

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Liandry's Torment 50.0%4 games

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

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Liandry's Torment › Shadowflame 100.0%3 games

Blackfire Torch › Shadowflame › Sorcerer's Shoes › Void Staff 33.3%3 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 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 83%6

Liandry's Torment 83%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 Potion66.7%45

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%1

Sapphire Crystal + Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:3067.4%43

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash72.7%22

Exhaust + Ignite64.3%14

Flash + Ignite66.7%9

Skills

Max

W67.4%46

Max

W33.3%3

Start

Q65.0%40

Start

W100.0%4

Dies more than most top laners

Before 14 minutes Karthus dies 4.0 times a game (average 2.4). 36% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 40% for the average top laner. 57% are fair 1-v-1s.

4.0deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.4)

36%involve the enemy junglerless than average (40%)

43%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (49%)

88%with no teammate nearmore than average (83%)

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 top lane

Ganks: 55% in their half of top lane. Collapses: 50% in their half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 53% in their 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 36% (avg 40%)Collapse 6% (avg 9%)1-v-1 57% (avg 51%)

Who gets the kill

Karthus Average

Bot laner 1% (avg 2%)Jungler 21% (avg 24%)Support 3% (avg 2%)Mid laner 6% (avg 7%)Top laner 68% (avg 63%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 2:00, 4:00, 6:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Karthus Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 2:00, 4:00, 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 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 0.6 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.9 kills per death.

Their half of top lane 0.6 K/D 67 / 104

Your half of top lane 0.6 K/D 41 / 72

The top-side river 0.8 K/D 11 / 14

Their half of bot lane 24.0 K/D 24 / 0

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 11% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 100% when Karthus is there and 78% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 17:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Karthus it is 80% against 62%.

Karthus

What most Karthus players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

Rift Herald: 91% against 42%

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 top laners

Ganks and collapses both hit their half of top lane

What kills Karthus

Ganks come at 2:00, 4:00, 6:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

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

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

Where fights happen