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so much mobility making it hard to hit your Qs. A lot of damage aswell so fights dont last long for your Q damage to matter.
Bard
You will not lane vs this guy but he will stop your R from ever doing anything.
Kindred
Ultimate ****blocks you so hard.
Vladimir
Dodges ur ult with W and zhonias.
Scales really good and basically heals from your Qs in lane due to dorans shield start.
Sylas
I ban this champion when im playing karthus midlane because he perma steals your ultimate.
Fizz
Go aery exhaust and bully him super hard early on, try to not waste ur flash. get a good cs lead and a zhonias later on.
Zed
Aery exhaust same deal as fizz matchup.
Vel'Koz
Out ranges you and can easily catch you out with his E or Q.
Katarina
No way to cancel her ultimate, can sustain with gunblade to negate your R execute. alot of mobility to dodge your Q.
Irelia
Sustain. Mobility, Oneshot potential. all things that counters karthus.
also easy access to MR.
Kassadin
outscales you, has magic shield and takes less magic damage so its hard to bully him in lane.
Yasuo
lots of mobility and sustain with dorans blade hard to bully out and hard to hit with Qs.
Xerath
same deal as velkoz, but with less kill pressure.
Anivia
Anivia feels like a broken champion when vs karthus. Let her push you in, if you try to contest she just R's and youre stuck in her ulti and die.
Ryze
His phaserush makes ur W useless. He is also super tanky. Dont bother going aery in this matchup you wont kill him nor will u deal damage or hit him and he runs you over. go dark harvest.
Talon
go dark harvest because he will roam, you pick up kills with your R.
Akali
A lot of sustain, beats you 1v1. cant see her in shroud. hard to kill with R due to zhonias and her sustain.
Orianna
dont get caught by her R. go dark harvest and build for R damage, since poking her with Q = death.
Zoe
go cleanse if enemy jungler has cc aswell, really good tool vs her bubble.
go dark harvest build.
Diana
exhaust + aery build. bully her hard early.
Syndra
Same thing as orianna, can catch you out and kill you so dont bother with aery build. go dark harvest.
Azir
only thing he can do is shurima shuffle you into his team.
Zilean
dont get caught my his E > Q W Q combo and youre fine.
Aurelion Sol
dont get ran over and hes useless.
Lux
useless
Ahri
respect her gapcloser and understand its hard to dodge skillshots with your champion
Veigar
consider going cleanse. If you dont go cleanse go exhaust aery page and hard bully him early on.
Malzahar
free mana from his voidlings, try to tell your jungler to gank him pre 6 to burn his flash so you cant get flash ulted.
Twisted Fate
cleanse and gg. counter his roams with your R if needed.
Ziggs
useless champ
Corki
free lane
Yuumi
gives u some ap
Amumu
loads of true damage for you
Zilean
Karthus with alot of movespeed is nice, and gives you levels for your lvl 6 11 and 16. also makes Qs easy to hit.
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Yuumi
gives u some ap
Amumu
loads of true damage for you
Zilean
Karthus with alot of movespeed is nice, and gives you levels for your lvl 6 11 and 16. also makes Qs easy to hit.
Hello readers! I am Veigar v2, a challenger midlane main on EUW. My main champions are Veigar and Karthus. I have over a thousand games and have spent a lot of time analysing the best karthus in the world BBoBBo / BBO / Cheong. His OPGG.He is trying to be a pro player at the moment I think but he still plays a lot of .
I am also the creator of the Karthus + Nunu funnel strat ( Old nunu gave ap from his W ) rip nunu :(
- Global 5 man ultimate that deals a lot of damage
- One of the best level 1-2s in the game.
- Great scaling
- Good DPS with his Q and E
- Flexable, can be picked as any role pretty much.
CONS
- No gapclosers / escapes
- Really slow (335 movespeed)
- Weak CC, Really only has damage in his kit
- A lot of weak matchups in midlane
- Item reliant
- Needs his team to make enemies low for his R. If your team cant damage enemy Karthus is really useless.
vs which is better?
Lets start talking about thebuild. and both have low AP scalings but high base damage which means that if you want to build for best damage over time and dueling power Flat and % magic penetration is the best to build. Items such as synergizes well with .The 10% Extra damage and gives is also really nice for this build. This build spikes a lot faster aswell because ofand being a lot cheaper than and due to how valuable magic penetration is on
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