I don't think so!!! Deathfire Grasp is much better for 1 vs 1 than the link build!

anyway, thank you for the sharing! ^^

HAHAHAHA no

the best build is http://www.solomid.net/guides.php?g=29482

in my opinion, it is better on 1 vs 1 :

Sorcerer's Shoes
Rod of Ages
Archangel's Staff(is better than the book) or............?
Rabadon's...
Nashor's Tooth(25% cdr)
Deathfire Grasp(15% cdr)

Hi Swaggrid,

When i first read the comments I believed that most of these voters were troll voters but as I rechecked your guide I realised that most of them just got that Deathfire Grasp wrong as they believed it to replace your boots. Its a common problem with mobafire that the item organizer just deletes the oldest item. This way people seem to just watch your items and think:

"WTF over 40% CDR?
AD and AS Items on Karthus?
-1"

They dont even bother anymore about reading your "so unbelievable ****py guide" as it obviously has to be written by someone without a clue what he is doing.
In order to avoid this misconception I'd suggest to remove Deathfire from the item planner and just mention it in the Items section. Your guide is very food [sic] but noobs dont care about how a meal tastes and judge just by the very first optical impression. Your meal might be awesome but those spices you use just look too ugly. So what do we do? Well simple we hide our spices in the inside of our meal and just let people who give it a try realise how awesome our hidden ingredients are. (Sorry I just had to do this after I misspelled good. XD)
I hope you get what I am getting at (If not: just remove Deathfire out of the Item planner so noobs cant rage about you CDR over capping anymore).
You should add a sentence in your Introduction about how important it is to at least read the Item section though.

I hope this helps and you dont mind me answering the following question.



Hi there actually there is no big secret but get better at last-hitting. I usually get around 220 CS early on. Only harass when you know you will hit or when your mana is full or when you see them approach to lat hit (last point is something quite important to learn in general. Only go for the kill when you know you can get it 1v1 or if your jungler helps you. Try to initiate with your wall as besides the slow it provides a nice decrease of armor and MR reduction which will greatly improve your damage output especially early on as most opponents will only have 30 base MR. So basically its just: Get better at the game but actually... what were you expecting? ;)
BTW: When you are playing ranked you wont be able to face yourself so I guess you arent level 30 yet. If so try to get the hang of Karthus already but dont be disappointed if it doesnt work out perfectly. The game only really starts at Level 30.

I just play 1 vs 1 against another Karthus ! it is almost impossible to win him (if he got all potency) by

Greater Glyph of Celerity
9

Greater Seal of Shielding
9

it is too easy for him to kill me at beginning and buying better equip early.... he will dominate me all the way through the whole game!

or.....i will have to improve my skill? too hard!

can you give me some advice ??? thank you very much!

you are wrong in so many ways I dont know even where to start.

1. "get nashor's tooth for the cdr" - uhm no? I get it for the highest cdr + AP? it still provides 65 AP which is only 15 less than for example Rylais, Lich bane or other hightier items. so do not reduce it to cdr only.

2. your boots of lucidities are so fail its beyond words. because of that missing 20 mpen u r losing way too much dmg. this is ANOTHER reason why nashors is so good here, because it provides MAX CDR with 1 slot! and in the end you still get Deathfire grasp so until then u r good to go. The funnier it gets if you realise that you suggest TWO items for CDR which I do with ONE item slot, and having at the end the same result, besides you lose the damage by not using sorcerer's shoes. Beyond words. But yea, go ahead and use boots of lucidties. I am sure, a pro like you is always first pick at your elo 900.

3. as not only the post above you proves already, besides i said so too in my guide: you always get full exeuip. So gunblades only downside is the money, BUT YOU WILL HAVE THAT MONEY, this means it is another big tier tiem with 70AP + max spell vamp. Why would a Karthus not want 2x WOTA essentially? + one active who can cc and spellvamp too for 300 dmg.
"Also, a gunblade on karthus, wtf?" since i explained it IN DETAIL why this is so good on karthus, shows me you didnt even read the compelte guide or in case you did, you didnt even understand what happenign here.

4. "Karthus does not need any more sustain than a wota, because in teamfights he is strong because of his passive". this is the biggest fail of your arguments. So you reject sustain because he has his pasive. seriously are u dumb? With a second wota u WILL LIVE MUCH LONGER and STILL HAVE YOUR passive. Seriously....why am I even bother answering people like you. You essentially said you do not need sustain ebcause when u die u can have 7 seconds for spammign spells.
My guide says: you will live 1000 times longer, and still have 7 seconds after your death. Why on earth would anyone want to die EARLIER? this shows everyone how dumb u r. And whats most important is:
"Seriously guides like these ruin mobafire's reputation. -1 and please, learn to build." this just indicates another troll downvote for no reason. i rpoved in my guide and now that u r wrong in EREVY single aspect. You dont even see how well this builds work. coming here, downvoating this with the most dumb and pathetic reasons I heard in a while and then telling me "learn to build" and calling this a shame for mobafore? U dude are a serious fail, and its a pitty that stupidity may downvote guides.


So I will end this by quitong Agoney, a respected member and a no1. guide builder:

So I need to ask why this guide isn't #1 and why it is only at 80%. It should honestly have a rateing of like 94%. I love it how people will use our guides, dominate with them, and then be like OH THAT WASZ COOL and won't upvote or anything. But when someone decides that HEY HE DOESNT USE MY EXACT ITEM BUILD, I SHOULD DOWNVOTE HIM! NEWB DOESN'T START WITHA DORANS!-1!!! I HATE PEOPLE. Anyways I just +1'd it, hope it gets you to #1

-Agoney

I give more about opinions like this, then dumb and plain wrong random nonsense as you just wrote here. Its because of haters and losers like you why this guide had only around 80%, though the majority of even extremly good and high players consider this as a top Karthus build.
So in others words to you directly and all haters and noobs who dont even understand what they downvote: GO TO HELL

The item build, the ability sequence... this guide gave me cancer. Karthus is built as an AP whole team nuker who is supposed to be dealing tons of damage. He is not meant to be played as a sustain type of hero like Vladimir. I'm sorry but that Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade are absolutely ridiculous. No Archangel's Staff? I don't know what ELO you play at man but this is actually bad.

I'm usually not that harsh and I know you may go out and downvote me somewhere but I seriously can't believe this is the top guide for Karthus. I even recall seeing a post on LoL Forums linking to this guide saying "This is why Mobafire is bad".

The item build, the ability sequence... This guide gave me cancer