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Karthus jgl shouldn't be a thing!

ClickClickClick·1/31/2019, 12:39:51 PM·27 votes·9,350 views

So I'm not the highest elo, peaked p1 last season but I think karthus jgl is just game breaking right now. Not sure if this is such a problem in higher elos but In lower elos below mid diamond I don't think teams have the co-ordination to consistently shut down an afk farming late game beast. You take one bad trade and you are dead, now I'm willing to say this is fine as long as there is a way to punish a karthus however what happens is ok maybe he gets killed once or twice in the jgl if your lucky. But for the rest of the game he is just sitting there scaling waiting for cross map snipes getting fed with 0 effort. And then when the main objectives spawn he can press r, you look over at your half health support pinging everyone out and the adc scrambling to life steal off anything and that's how you lost baron/elder dragon. Who in their right mind would even think about picking a farming jungler like shyvana when karthus jgl exists in its current state, I mean its absurd. Having said this lane is Karthus punishable, he lacks mobility and is squishy early game which are his weaknesses but when you can ignore all of that and still have the amount of impact he has there is something wrong.I will be banning karthus from now on until he is no longer viable in the jungle, I don't think lane karthus should be nerfed despite his kit in itself being toxic so something along the lines of just making it very inefficient for him to jungle would be ideal.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't claim to know this to be fact. Maybe I'm just bad and don't know how to play against this but this is just my opinion.

76 Comments

MLDzXnRRR1/31/2019, 1:23:53 PM19 votes

Karthus was garbage tier, but the reworked dark harvest made him into infinite scaling champ...

Warlord Rhinark1/31/2019, 1:13:32 PM17 votes

I thought we were supposed to diversify roles, not restrict them.

PhearBunny1/31/2019, 1:44:18 PM16 votes

Jungle Karthas needs to not be a thing. All he does is farm, and press R, and in doing so, out performs every jungler in the game.

Its literally the most uninteractive gameplay in the history of LoL

General Esdeath 1/31/2019, 5:15:15 PM11 votes

I remember trying Karthus jg months ago and being called a troll. Now it's meta and I get called a meta slave when I play it

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

Critmaster Garen1/31/2019, 4:26:45 PM10 votes

dark harvest might be too strong on him, but there is no reason why karthus jungle shouldnt be a thing.

there was a time in this game when you could practically jungle every champion. the role has become so restrictive over the past couple of years. if youre not playing anything but a handful of specific champions, youre basically just trolling.

Jump God1/31/2019, 1:35:33 PM6 votes

Oh yeah, let's just gut Karthus jungle and force Karthus out of a role like the rest of the champions, let me give you a few examples: Camille (removing her stun on jungle monsters, minions etc. so it only works against champions), Taliyah jungle and so on. You are ready to become a Rioter, let's just force champions out of a role because that solves the issue about damage in this game. SMH.

Jerry SeinfeId1/31/2019, 3:04:01 PM5 votes

how is this different from toplane karthus?

Salvor Hardın1/31/2019, 2:45:54 PM5 votes

Having said this lane is Karthus punishable

In Jungle it is too, if you find him in the jungle he is dead or loses flash, he depends a lot on his team to respond to an invade. Either you win all the lines with a jungle that wins a lot, or you invade and leave Karthus far behind.

As a Example:

Heavy stomp: https://i.gyazo.com/cbde705d665b17d22f70818d627a369f.png

Highly invaded: https://i.gyazo.com/0191fb996c25987faad8814a6475d803.png

Losing laners: https://i.gyazo.com/3893bb1ac37812b1d7cebdc4a55ec604.png

Alzon1/31/2019, 4:50:25 PM5 votes

A campfire in the jungle is still a campfire. If Karthus teaches more people to invade, that’s a good thing.

kingDeDeDarius1/31/2019, 4:00:56 PM4 votes

Well I don't play karthus but I don't want him removed from the game, I think he's fun in that role. Maybe they should make hi ult do a % less damage if he's not within like 2500 units of any enemy champions. This way he would hopefully not be affected in lane, but he can't sit at red or blue buff, or wolves or base or whatever and do quite as much damage. Maybe like a 25% damage reduction. The reduction and proximity to enemy champs could be worked out of course.

Jaspers1/31/2019, 1:22:50 PM3 votes

It was a thing before Dark Harvest just more niche. Now pros play it, others do as well.

Meritas1/31/2019, 10:26:58 PM2 votes

Champions are already getting erased from Solo Q because of Pro Play, if we also remove champions, because they are too strong for Solo Q, what kind of a roster will we even be left with?

Wild Geese1/31/2019, 6:03:28 PM2 votes

Few People realize Karthus was one of the first champions to be Jungled! Back when junglers weren't a thing.

You know what shouldn't be a thing? Jungle rs. No champion should be built for the jungle. Make every chain viable in the jungle-- increase team diversity!