Mid · 46 games · NA

KarthusMid build & runes · NA

Mid · 5% of games Bot · 41%Jungle · 48%Top · 4%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−61 gold), and still wins 57%.

Win rate: 56.5%; ±14.3 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: A; #17 of 83
Pick rate: 0.2%; ban 2.5%
Games: 46; ranked solo/duo

Karthus mid wins 56.5% of 46 ranked games in NA, rank 17 of 83 mid champions (tier A). Most players finish Blackfire Torch first, at about 10:12.

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 9:59 · 91% · 40 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 12:18 · 96% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 18:18 · 61% · 22 games

Item 3 · late game

Rabadon's Deathcap 22:36 · 8 of 30 games

Item 4 · late game

Void Staff 30:00 · 4 of 14 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Precision 24% of games · 64% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 96% of games · 57% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 70% of games · 59% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Lay Waste first 89% of games · 54% 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′60% wins33% of games · 15

Lasts 25′ or more52% wins59% of games · 27

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below Karthus's own win rate (56.5%). Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Karthus games

Rift Herald: 79% against 41%

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

Rift Herald 41% 79% +38

First Baron 45% 76% +32

First tower 42% 73% +31

First dragon 43% 70% +26

First blood 52% 61% +9

First Voidgrubs 67% 50% −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

Fewer control wards, more damage

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

Fewer control wards a game0.11 against 0.63 · −83%

More damage a minute1269 against 844 · +50%

More deaths a game8.4 against 5.7 · +49%

More time spent dead9.0s against 6.2s a minute · +46%

More assists a game8.5 against 6.3 · +36%

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 ~10:18

Item 2done ~17:54

Item 3done ~23:30

Item 4done ~27:24

Most common full builds

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 100.0%4 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Liandry's Torment › Shadowflame 25.0%4 games

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

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

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

Stormsurge 43%7

Liandry's Torment 43%7

Shadowflame 40%10

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 Potion56.8%44

Sapphire Crystal + Refillable Potion100.0%1

Doran's Ring + Dark Seal + Health Potion + Health Potion0.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~12:1854.5%44

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash59.4%32

Exhaust + Ignite57.1%7

Flash + Ignite40.0%5

Skills

Max

W53.7%41

Max

W75.0%4

Start

Q53.6%28

Start

E60.0%10

Dies more than most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Karthus dies 3.4 times a game (average 2.2). 45% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 49% for the average mid laner. 34% are fair 1-v-1s.

3.4deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.2)

45%involve the enemy junglerless than average (49%)

66%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (65%)

64%with no teammate nearabout average (62%)

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

Ganked in their half of mid, collapsed on in your half of mid

Ganks: 34% in their half of mid. Collapses: 30% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 51% in your 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 45% (avg 49%)Collapse 21% (avg 16%)1-v-1 34% (avg 35%)

Who gets the kill

Karthus Average

Bot laner 6% (avg 7%)Jungler 27% (avg 27%)Support 6% (avg 6%)Mid laner 61% (avg 55%)Top laner 1% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

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

Karthus Peak Average mid laner

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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 mid, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 0.8 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.4 in your half of mid. Overall 0.9 kills per death.

Their half of mid 0.8 K/D 43 / 53

Your half of mid 0.4 K/D 19 / 53

Their half of bot lane 4.8 K/D 24 / 5

The bot-side river 0.9 K/D 14 / 15

Their jungle 0.8 K/D 10 / 12

Your jungle 1.1 K/D 10 / 9

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 33% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 30%). The team wins 81% when Karthus is there and 76% when not.

KarthusMid build & runes · NA

What most Karthus players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

Rift Herald: 79% against 41%

Fewer control wards, more damage

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

Ganked in their half of mid, collapsed on in your half of mid

What kills Karthus

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

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

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

Where fights happen