Support · 20 games · KR

KarthusSupport build & runes · KR

Support · 2% of games Bot · 10%Jungle · 69%Mid · 6%Top · 13%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+506 gold).

Win rate: 30.0%; ±20.1 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: —; too few games to rank
Pick rate: 0.0%; ban 3.4%
Games: 20; ranked solo/duo

Karthus support wins 30.0% of 20 ranked games in KR. 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 12:10 · 100% · 17 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 13:42 · 85% of games

Item 2 · late game

Shadowflame 22:30 · 5 of 15 games

Runes

Dark Harvest · Domination + Precision 20% of games · 25% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 95% of games · 26% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 60% of games · 42% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Lay Waste first 100% of games · 30% wins Skill orders →

Pros & one-tricks lately

3 one-tricks play Karthus this patch

Every game, with builds →

고통우울절망고독허무One-trick · 100%KR · Master · 578 LP Loss vs Seraphine · 13 Oct
고통우울절망고독허무One-trick · 100%KR · Master · 578 LP Loss vs Thresh · 12 Oct
제 발One-trick · 100%KR · Master · 353 LP Loss vs Karma · 12 Oct

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 more15% wins65% of games · 13

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below Karthus's own win rate (30.0%). Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Karthus games

First tower: 55% against 0%

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

First tower 0% 55% +55

Rift Herald 15% 57% +42

First Baron 15% 57% +42

First Voidgrubs 18% 44% +26

First dragon 23% 43% +20

First blood 33% 27% −6

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 game0.45 against 0.09 · +400%

More solo kills a game0.8 against 0.2 · +233%

More damage a minute1007 against 364 · +177%

More share of team damage26% against 11% · +146%

More deaths a game11.3 against 5.8 · +93%

About average: 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 ~12:30

Item 2done ~22:30

Item 3done ~28:18

Item 4

Most common full builds

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

Not enough games against this kind of team yet.

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 Potion26.3%19

Amplifying Tome + Health Potion + Health Potion + Glowing Mote100.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:4229.4%17

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash41.7%12

Exhaust + Ignite20.0%5

Flash + Ignite0.0%3

Skills

Max

W30.0%20

Start

Q29.4%17

Start

W33.3%3

Dies more than most supports

Before 14 minutes Karthus dies 5.4 times a game (average 2.7). 30% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 47% for the average support. 13% are fair 1-v-1s.

5.4deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.7)

30%involve the enemy junglerless than average (47%)

87%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (90%)

21%with no teammate nearless than 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 your half of bot lane

Ganks: 28% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 45% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 43% 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 30% (avg 47%)Collapse 57% (avg 43%)1-v-1 13% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Karthus Average

Bot laner 59% (avg 43%)Jungler 18% (avg 25%)Support 18% (avg 15%)Mid laner 3% (avg 13%)Top laner 3% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 2:00–4:00, 5:00 and 8:00–10:00

Karthus Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 2:00, 5:00 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 bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Before 14 minutes: 0.7 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.3 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.5 kills per death.

Their half of bot lane 0.7 K/D 27 / 38

Your half of bot lane 0.3 K/D 13 / 41

The bot-side river 0.3 K/D 4 / 14

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 48%). The team wins 54% when Karthus is there and 31% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 14:00 (average 11:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 52% against 44%; for Karthus it is 27% against 33%.

Pros and one-tricks · patch 16.20 · 6 games

One-tricks take Dark Harvest

The most common choice in each group, beside every Master+ Karthus support game. Highlighted: where the group differs from everyone.

	One-tricks6 games	All Master+20 games
First item	Blackfire Torch83% of games	Blackfire Torch85% of games
Second item	Stormsurge20% of games	Shadowflame33% of games
Boots	Sorcerer's Shoes100% of games	Sorcerer's Shoes85% of games
Keystone	Dark Harvest50% of games	Deathfire Touch65% of games
Skill order	Max Q firstLay Waste · 100%	Max Q firstLay Waste · 100%
Win rate	16.7%±29.8 · 6 games	30.0%±20.1 · 20 games

Newest first

Every pro and one-trick game

고통우울절망고독허무One-trick · 100%KR · Master · 578 LP 2 / 6 / 4 Loss vs Seraphine · 19:44 13 Oct
고통우울절망고독허무One-trick · 100%KR · Master · 578 LP 10 / 14 / 16 Loss vs Thresh · 32:46 12 Oct
제 발One-trick · 100%KR · Master · 353 LP 4 / 15 / 10 Loss vs Karma · 28:31 12 Oct
제 발One-trick · 100%KR · Master · 353 LP 3 / 10 / 8 Loss vs Bard · 25:07 11 Oct
라 젠 카 서 스One-trick · 85%KR · Master · 459 LP 3 / 9 / 9 Loss vs Milio · 32:17 9 Oct
라 젠 카 서 스One-trick · 85%KR · Master · 459 LP 8 / 10 / 21 Win vs Pyke · 38:24 9 Oct

Open a game for its buying order, skill order, first back and full rune page.

Karthus support · patch 16.20 · most games first

The players behind these games

Player	Record	Rank	Last game
고통우울절망고독허무One-trick · 100%KR	0–2 0% win	Master · 578 LP	13 Oct
제 발One-trick · 100%KR	0–2 0% win	Master · 353 LP	12 Oct
라 젠 카 서 스One-trick · 85%KR	1–1 50% win	Master · 459 LP	9 Oct

One-trick: Master or higher, with 60% or more of their last 30 days of ranked solo games (20 at least) on one champion; only those games count. Pros: the solo queue accounts listed on their Leaguepedia page. Only Karthus support games on patch 16.20 count here. Pro data from Leaguepedia (CC BY-SA). To be removed, see About & privacy.

KarthusSupport build & runes · KR

What most Karthus players run

3 one-tricks play Karthus this patch

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First tower: 55% against 0%

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 your half of bot lane

What kills Karthus

Ganks come at 2:00–4:00, 5:00 and 8:00–10:00

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

Where fights happen

Where fights happen

One-tricks take Dark Harvest

Every pro and one-trick game

The players behind these games