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You're not playing Mid. The point of jungle IS EARLY GAME. Your Jungle presence is most established early/mid game. Sacrificing effectiveness during this time is the exact WRONG thing you need to do. As a jungler, you need to MAXIMIZE your early and mid game.
Correct, and this is the case for most junglers, however Karthus is able to deal crazy damage to isolated targets with his Lay Waste, scaling 60% ap+ the 240 base damage. This is easily sufficient damage to kill a target in a gank.
You are right though, a jungler needs lots of presence to at least be able to scare people out of lane. I almost always get ROA on jungle Karthus, sometimes even in the teamfight phase, because it is an essential item on Karthus. However, If you are having a hard time early game, I would advise putting off the purchase of this item and instead going for a Zhonya's Hourglass first. This will allow you to do plenty of damage in ganks, while still enabling some surviveablity incase the laner turns on you.
You're right to some degree. Yeah RoA limits his early game presence, however I find it essential to be effective late game. And as for the AS, runes/masteries mean that his Lay Waste has a low enough CD that he does not have time for auto attacks. Thanks for the suggestion though, ill look into some other options (:
You're not playing Mid. The point of jungle IS EARLY GAME. Your Jungle presence is most established early/mid game. Sacrificing effectiveness during this time is the exact WRONG thing you need to do. As a jungler, you need to MAXIMIZE your early and mid game.