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Karthus Build Guide by

[14.18] Full magic penetration karthus

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Runes:

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Manaflow Band

Transcendence

Gathering Storm

Precision

Presence of Mind

Last Stand

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10-180 Bonus Health

Spells:

1 2

Mid

Exhaust

Flash

Items

Starting item (mid/jg)

First buy/ for jg just skip the tear as you don’t really need tear in the jg

Boot first then complete liandry’s

Core items

Finishing items

situational build when you have enough money to sell boots for 6th item

General build

Ability Order Best efficiency

Karthus Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Zed

Extreme

Too mobile throughout the game, especially with experience zed player. Banning zed will always a good option.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Champion Build Guide

How to be a good karthus player

What makes a good karthus player is how often can you land your Q and use your Q and W for vision to check bushes. To land Q more often you need to know what your opponent wants to do at that moment, e.g. last minions, use abilities to poke, at this moment they will stop for a while, and with characteristic of the delay of Q and moving back immediately after that, your poke range is actually bigger than most opponent's poke range. At the mid to late game, the presence of karthus in the team fight will make an originally 50/50 team fight becomes a 100% winning team fight of your team. Even the enemy team tries to take out you frist in the team fight, it will just waste their dps as your passive allows you to continouly give damage even you die in the team fight,so your whole team just survive longer and still remains the same damage throughout the team fight. Most enemy teams don't realise this true value of karthus and waste their cooldown and dps and lost the team fight.

Why magic penetration is so good for karthus

Actually good karthus player do most of their damage from their Q, and in the early stage of the game most of the enemy team just don't understand how much solo Q damage can fo to them and don't build enough mr in the early stage. This makes magic pen. build in karthus so efficient and do crazy damage to the enemy team.

Lane phase

Wave control the minions and froze it near your tower. This allows you to poke the enemy more easily, as their movement and goal at the time you want to poke them will be more easily to read.
You can clear the wave fast and try to roam once your boots are finish.

Mid to late game

Your wave clearing is so fast which makes you have wave and minions advantage if the enemies don't send a guy to clear the waves. That's mean you can group with your team for team fight one step earlier than the enemy team if they send someone to clear the wave, and with your clear speed you actually can join the team very fast if you think the team fight is about to begin.
Using this build with Elder dragon buff you can even using your R and one shot people without/little mr items with 1800 hp left.