@Riot here's the deal... Karthus REALLY needs his W buffed.

D2Vincent·Jan 11, 2017·4 votes·495 views

Seriously, the slow on that ability is barely noticeable, especially with everyone else having a dash of some sort. I was landing it on a Heimer and even then, there was no possible way I could catch up with him at all. Look, I know that Karthus is supposed to be a Hyper-Carry and yet have to rely on his team for him to carry, but Karthus is supposed to excel at Dueling with his Double Damage Q's as well as Teamfight's with his E and R. As for his W, he's supposed to be able to use it as a way to

Peel for his team
Initiate with the slow and MR shred
be able to punish those who get too close

it's just that Karthus's W feels so lackluster, it's barely worth as an ability, I really hope this changes in the near future.

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JavelinJoeJan 11, 20171 votes

Karthus' W and E really suck as far as abilities go when in lane. W is negligible and the E is way to mana hungry to even bother toggling it on before you have shit tons of mana (or if really needed to get that last tick of damage in a gank). But in like 2 seconds you are already down 40-50% of your mana for maybe 300 points of damage. The only reason you would even consider leveling it more than 1 pre lvl 6 or before any real mana items is the passive mana return which isn't anywhere near enough to front the cost of actually using it.

30 mana per second at rank 1 is gonna give you 30 (+20% AP) of damage each second. but that caps at rank 5 for 110 (+20% AP) at a whopping 78 mana/second. 78mana/s is crazy expensive for not that much damage and no other effects. At least Anivia Ult slows and deals 200% damage at full size and Swain Ult heals. Both of those are toggle mana draining abilities. But both have an additional combat effect. Karthus just restores a flat amount of mana on a death of any enemy unit. Swain has that on his passive and it has a % too.