Support · 28 games · NA

KarthusSupport build & runes · NA

Support · 2% of games Bot · 38%Mid · 6%Jungle · 50%Top · 4%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+518 gold).

Win rate: 46.4%; ±18.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: —; too few games to rank
Pick rate: 0.1%; ban 2.2%
Games: 28; ranked solo/duo

Karthus support wins 46.4% of 28 ranked games in NA. Most players finish Blackfire Torch first, at about 12:12.

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 12:22 · 85% · 23 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 15:06 · 86% of games

Item 2 · late game

Shadowflame 20:00 · 9 of 23 games

Item 3 · late game

Liandry's Torment 27:24 · 4 of 15 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Precision 18% of games · 60% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 93% of games · 50% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 64% of games · 50% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Lay Waste first 79% of games · 50% wins Skill orders →

Pros & one-tricks lately

2 one-tricks play Karthus this patch

Every game, with builds →

TTV TrainersNAOne-trick · 91%NA · Grandmaster · 1,333 LP Loss vs Swain · 12 Oct
YouTube KarhusOne-trick · 96%NA · Master · 1,187 LP Loss vs Rell · 10 Oct
TTV TrainersNAOne-trick · 91%NA · Grandmaster · 1,333 LP Loss vs Pantheon · 9 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 more48% wins75% of games · 21

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below Karthus's own win rate (46.4%). Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Karthus games

First Baron: 85% against 13%

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

First Baron 13% 85% +71

First tower 11% 63% +52

First dragon 33% 56% +23

Rift Herald 33% 56% +23

First blood 38% 58% +21

First Voidgrubs 47% 45% −2

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 game0.71 against 0.10 · +610%

More solo kills a game0.7 against 0.2 · +209%

More damage a minute1065 against 375 · +184%

More share of team damage26% against 11% · +142%

More minions a minute2.2 against 1.1 · +99%

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 ~12:00

Item 2done ~20:18

Item 3done ~27:30

Item 4done ~34:12

Most common full builds

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

Health Potion + Health Potion50.0%26

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

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

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~15:0650.0%24

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash50.0%18

Flash + Ignite0.0%6

Exhaust + Ignite100.0%4

Skills

Max

W50.0%22

Max

E33.3%3

Start

Q57.1%14

Start

W14.3%7

Dies more than most supports

Before 14 minutes Karthus dies 4.6 times a game (average 2.4). 36% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 44% for the average support. 14% are fair 1-v-1s.

4.6deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.4)

36%involve the enemy junglerless than average (44%)

86%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (90%)

29%with no teammate nearmore than average (25%)

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: 28% in their half of bot lane. Collapses: 54% in their half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 72% 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 36% (avg 44%)Collapse 50% (avg 46%)1-v-1 14% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Karthus Average

Bot laner 45% (avg 44%)Jungler 16% (avg 23%)Support 23% (avg 15%)Mid laner 13% (avg 14%)Top laner 2% (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: 0.5 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.5 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.6 kills per death.

Their half of bot lane 0.5 K/D 31 / 61

Your half of bot lane 0.5 K/D 15 / 33

The bot-side river 0.7 K/D 10 / 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 52% of their team's dragon takes (average support 51%). The team wins 74% when Karthus is there and 59% 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 45%; for Karthus it is 44% against 50%.

Pros and one-tricks · patch 16.20 · 5 games

One-tricks follow up with Liandry's Torment

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

	One-tricks5 games	All Master+28 games
First item	Blackfire Torch100% of games	Blackfire Torch82% of games
Second item	Liandry's Torment50% of games	Shadowflame39% of games
Boots	Sorcerer's Shoes100% of games	Sorcerer's Shoes86% of games
Keystone	Deathfire Touch100% of games	Deathfire Touch54% of games
Skill order	Max Q firstLay Waste · 100%	Max Q firstLay Waste · 79%
Win rate	20.0%±35.1 · 5 games	46.4%±18.5 · 28 games

Newest first

Every pro and one-trick game

TTV TrainersNAOne-trick · 91%NA · Grandmaster · 1,333 LP 2 / 18 / 22 Loss vs Swain · 43:00 12 Oct
YouTube KarhusOne-trick · 96%NA · Master · 1,187 LP 10 / 14 / 9 Loss vs Rell · 30:41 10 Oct
TTV TrainersNAOne-trick · 91%NA · Grandmaster · 1,333 LP 4 / 13 / 12 Loss vs Pantheon · 28:00 9 Oct
TTV TrainersNAOne-trick · 91%NA · Grandmaster · 1,333 LP 2 / 10 / 6 Loss vs Senna · 26:13 8 Oct
TTV TrainersNAOne-trick · 91%NA · Grandmaster · 1,333 LP 8 / 14 / 9 Win vs Nautilus · 26:33 8 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	Their usual build	Rank	Last game
TTV TrainersNAOne-trick · 91%NA	1–3 25% win		Grandmaster · 1,333 LP	12 Oct
YouTube KarhusOne-trick · 96%NA	0–1 0% win		Master · 1,187 LP	10 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 · NA

What most Karthus players run

2 one-tricks play Karthus this patch

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 85% against 13%

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

Where fights happen

Where fights happen

One-tricks follow up with Liandry's Torment

Every pro and one-trick game

The players behind these games