Top · 21 games · NA

Karthus

Top · 5% of games Bot · 42%Jungle · 47%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+983 gold).

Win rate: 57.1%; ±21.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: —; too few games to rank
Pick rate: 0.2%; ban 3.2%
Games: 21; ranked solo/duo

Karthus top wins 57.1% of 21 ranked games in NA. Most players finish Blackfire Torch first, at about 9:18.

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 9:33 · 100% · 20 games

Item 2

Shadowflame 16:51 · 80% · 12 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 12:54 · 95% of games

Item 3 · late game

Liandry's Torment 23:24 · 7 of 16 games

Item 4 · late game

Void Staff 26:30 · 3 of 7 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Precision 33% of games · 57% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 86% of games · 56% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Ignite 52% of games · 64% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Lay Waste first 86% of games · 61% 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.

Lasts 25′ or more60% wins71% of games · 15

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: 89% against 33%

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

Rift Herald 33% 89% +56

First tower 20% 69% +49

First Baron 36% 80% +44

First dragon 50% 67% +17

First blood 58% 56% −3

First Voidgrubs 71% 50% −21

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 time spent dead

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

More solo kills a game3.8 against 2.1 · +77%

More time spent dead10.9s against 6.4s a minute · +69%

More multikills a game0.71 against 0.43 · +65%

More deaths a game9.4 against 5.8 · +64%

More damage a minute1259 against 781 · +61%

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 ~17:06

Item 3done ~23:24

Item 4done ~27:42

Most common full builds

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Liandry's Torment 28.6%7 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 Potion55.6%18

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

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

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~12:5455.0%20

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Ignite63.6%11

Exhaust + Flash57.1%7

Flash + Ignite100.0%1

Skills

Max

W61.1%18

Max

W33.3%3

Start

Q58.8%17

Start

E0.0%2

Dies more than most top laners

Before 14 minutes Karthus dies 4.0 times a game (average 2.4). 29% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 39% for the average top laner. 67% are fair 1-v-1s.

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

29%involve the enemy junglerless than average (39%)

33%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (47%)

86%with no teammate nearabout average (84%)

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: 64% in their half of top lane. Collapses: 67% in their half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 65% 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 29% (avg 39%)Collapse 4% (avg 8%)1-v-1 67% (avg 53%)

Who gets the kill

Karthus Average

Bot laner 1% (avg 1%)Jungler 19% (avg 24%)Support 5% (avg 2%)Mid laner 1% (avg 7%)Top laner 69% (avg 64%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 2:00, 5:00 and 8:00

Karthus Peak Average top laner

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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 top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 0.7 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.7 in your half of top lane. Overall 1.0 kills per death.

Their half of top lane 0.7 K/D 41 / 55

Your half of top lane 0.7 K/D 15 / 23

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 18% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 100% when Karthus is there and 75% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 20:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Karthus it is 67% against 56%.

Karthus

What most Karthus players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

Rift Herald: 89% against 33%

More solo kills, more time spent dead

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, 5:00 and 8:00

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

Where fights happen

Where fights happen