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Karthus

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+339 gold).

Win rate: 65.0%; ±20.9 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #21 of 76
Pick rate: 0.3%; ban 4.7%
Games: 20; ranked solo/duo

Karthus top wins 65.0% of 20 ranked games in KR, rank 21 of 76 top champions (tier B). Most players finish Blackfire Torch first, at about 9:24.

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 9:39 · 100% · 19 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 14:36 · 75% of games

Item 2 · late game

Shadowflame 16:00 · 8 of 16 games

Item 3 · late game

Zhonya's Hourglass 28:12 · 4 of 9 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Precision 60% of games · 67% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 90% of games · 67% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 35% of games · 86% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Lay Waste first 95% of games · 68% 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′73% wins55% of games · 11

Lasts 25′ or more40% wins25% of games · 5

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 tower: 85% against 29%

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

First tower 29% 85% +56

Rift Herald 45% 89% +43

First Baron 54% 86% +32

First dragon 57% 69% +12

First blood 64% 67% +3

First Voidgrubs 75% 58% −17

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 solo kills, more multikills

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

More solo kills a game3.5 against 1.9 · +79%

More multikills a game0.65 against 0.38 · +71%

More damage a minute1144 against 754 · +52%

More time spent dead9.1s against 6.1s a minute · +50%

More deaths a game7.8 against 5.3 · +48%

About average: 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 ~9:36

Item 2done ~16:54

Item 3done ~25:36

Item 4done ~29:30

Most common full builds

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

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

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion66.7%18

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

Sapphire Crystal + Amplifying Tome + Refillable Potion0.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~14:3673.3%15

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash85.7%7

Flash + Ignite50.0%6

Exhaust + Ignite60.0%5

Skills

Max

W68.4%19

Max

W0.0%1

Start

Q66.7%18

Start

E0.0%1

Dies more than most top laners

Before 14 minutes Karthus dies 4.2 times a game (average 2.5). 40% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 40% for the average top laner. 51% are fair 1-v-1s.

4.2deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.5)

40%involve the enemy junglerabout average (40%)

49%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (49%)

86%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: 59% in their half of top lane. Collapses: 57% 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 40% (avg 40%)Collapse 8% (avg 9%)1-v-1 51% (avg 51%)

Who gets the kill

Karthus Average

Bot laner 0% (avg 1%)Jungler 23% (avg 25%)Support 1% (avg 2%)Mid laner 12% (avg 8%)Top laner 62% (avg 62%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 2:00, 4:00 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 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 your half of top lane, loses them in their half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 0.6 kills per death in your half of top lane against 0.5 in their half of top lane. Overall 0.9 kills per death.

Their half of top lane 0.5 K/D 24 / 47

Your half of top lane 0.6 K/D 19 / 30

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 8% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 16%). The team wins 100% when Karthus is there and 77% 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 75% against 63%.

Karthus

What most Karthus players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First tower: 85% against 29%

More solo kills, more multikills

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 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

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

Where fights happen

Where fights happen