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Karthus: King Killsteal

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Thanks to me upvoting the guide now has 90 % <33

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First run with Karth using this build, solid, but squishy(but thats Karth) Voted Up.

Question: Why not get Morellonoicon or Athene's unholy grail? It seems with a 3 min ult cool down, reducing by 40% would be ideal.

Either one of these seem like they might be more effective then Will of the ancients as they both offer more AP and they both offer a 20% cooldown redux. Just wondering what the logic was of picking wIll over More or Athene's

Hey there! i had many thoughts about building Karthus.
My main problem is, there are just too many items which i want to buy, and they dont fit in a 6-item inventory :D

I basically have two builds: my own "fighter karthus":
sorcerers shoes
Rod of Ages
Rylais (SLOW DEM ALL)
Liandrys (yes, liandrys. gives you the health and mpen for a fighter and cracks people up when they escape from ur ult with 20hp and just bleed to death :p)
Zhonyas - invulnerability n armor
Abyssal - Mr and Mpen for your team

and second, my hypercarry karthus:
Sorcerers
Archangel's Staff
Rabadons
Void staff
Zhonyas
Abyssal (even more mpen, FTW)

Now, my problem is, you got me hooked with your wota for spellvamp, i tried it and it works nicely, btu it doesnt fit in my builds anywhere :s
And also, a Rod of Ages and Archangels staff also work well together, but they dont fit in one of my two builds together!

What are your thoughts about this?

appreciating an answer, greetz
Petro

Edit: i upvoted, but for some reason it doesnt show it in my comment :o why's that?

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ha just won game with Karthus :D ty!

Thank you for the guide. I really liked the idea of Karthus, so I bought him. I made similar builds on my own, but I hadn't thought about the Hextech or the wota! I read all the way through and learned a few things about playing this character! I'm excited to try it out. Upvoted.

I just wanted to say that the Suicide Karthus guide gave me the primary inspiration for my own Stagedive Karthus build, but that said, please look at your guide here again. We can debate on the merits and flaws of some of your choices at great length, but simply put: why is summoner's wrath a pick on your list when the listed summoner spells are teleport and revive? This is a painfully obvious error.

Nice bild, one mistake found, you dont need 3 but 6 targets, to heal for the same amount as a singe target lay waste with spellvamp because of its damage beeing doubled if only applied to one target.

You will get your thumbs up, if you cahnge it :-)

i like that guild im killing more than other build.

thanks

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I feel like getting tear is also nice with the healthy . If you get max stacks and you upgrade it you get a really neat shield that gives +/- 500 hp (with no armour value, but still)