Karthus has a 5-3ish minute cooldown on his ult and it's so epic, but the quote is only for people who are near him to hear. I mean, COME ON! I want the Death-from-the-sky delivery service to come with a complimentary greeting message.
Also, this post is technically daily if you look at it every day.
Chønklord40 votesAs a Karthus main with mastery 7 and all the skins, I approve of this message (globally).
"WaaaaOOoOoOOh"
Shaponja1 votesWhy does it matter that you main him,have all the skins and have level 7 with him? Showoff.
Big Lincoln38 votesRiot said that it would be too noisy
but y'know it's totally okay that we hear an enemy Illaoi's recall speech if she backs while visible to us, or for Kalista's completely unneeded global monologue at the start of every game...
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Atanchan3 votesI'm pretty sure it's not the "noisiness" but the multitude of voice lines it has. With something like those two other examples, it doesn't matter so much because they aren't exactly going to play during a chaotic fight. On the flipside, if Requiem's voice lines were played to the enemy team, one of like fifteen very different sounds could end up playing at any time, potentially obscuring the main sound effect of the spell, making it a case where someone could have no idea what Karthus is currently doing due to having not heard the voice line before. And after learning what Karthus does, that's still fifteen different voice lines you'd need to develop a mental response to.
Compare that to like Rek's global screech for her ult. There's absolutely no variation to it - if you've heard it once, you'll hear what it'll be like every time afterwards when she uses her ult. Overwatch's heroes used a similar principle for their ultimate voice lines, only have two - and while they're very different, their differences actually serve a vital purpose, given that one always plays for an enemy ( or your own ) ultimate, and one always plays for an allied ultimate.
nm10109 votesMake it a singular line for enemies.
Just assume when Karthus is talking that you are about to die.
Both solve this issue.
ReZisT Lust2 votes
Le Parries 
Steals Time 
Fish sticks 
Goes invisible-[slayer-pantheon-popcorn] Did you just assume their status of life???????
Golden Tager X4 votesYa dont need a response to a voice line
WHEN A GODDAMN PILLAR OF BLUE LIGHT IS OVER YE DAMN HEAD
AwesomeGuyDj1 votesWHEN A GODDAMN PILLAR OF BLUE LIGHT IS OVER YE DAMN HEAD
exactly what i was thing
JSTIN83 votesIt would be a real dick move if I were to pop my ult right now...
Ulquiorra9952 votesBut Requiem has a very distinct visual effect that is impossible to miss. People aren't going to be "Hm, Karthus said something different than last time, I wonder what it is?", they are going to see ghostly pillars above their heads and go "Oh shit, Karthus is ulting" no matter which voiceline he utters.
And Overwatch's heroes are kinda different because it's a FPS. Unlike League where you have a 360 degree vision radius, in OW if enemy ults behind (or above) you you aren't going to see them so you need an audible cue to warn you. With Karthus there is no way you won't see his ult visuals, and there is no way to get them confused with anything else.
Atanchan1 votesI feel like I'm getting this response over and over again as if you guys have never missed a particle effect in the middle of a fight, especially while you're panicked and especially especially if there's an unfamiliar champion or nine in the game.
Noxian Pride1 votesWhat you aren't getting is there's a difference between missing one particle effect (In which case Karthus probably isn't doing a very good ult) and missing 5, especially when said particle effect is one of the most visible ones in the game and has a solid 3 seconds of windup.
I've been playing about a year now, sometimes with game muted, and in that time I've missed, at the very most, 2 Karthus ults. Neither of them killed me.
Atanchan1 votesI feel like this is more an argument for the thing to not have anything else added for the sake of letting the enemy team know it's happening. Especially since part of it is "I've never not noticed it even with my sound off" when talking about an audio cue.
Hay5eed1 votesNot to mention Warwicks soundtrack everytime you go below 50% health
TheBenchedKench22 votesRiot needs to make it so that if we're using a pentakill skin. We should be able to listen to Pentakill music ingame (like DJ sona)
Ralanr10 votesYorick gets it! So should Karthus!
Bouncemaster Zac18 votesHis ult quotes used to be global. They removed it because it was "distracting." Then they made Illaoi's recall quotes global. :thinking:
LadyRenly9 votesI love how we get useless information from Kalista (its completely irrelevant to 8 other people) but somehow it's too noisy for Karthus whose ability effects the entire enemy team?
Melledoneus5 votes#Deadlivesmatter
...wait.
Glory ln Death4 votesUndead undeaths matter?
Ionian Vulpix5 votesI'd love to hear him shout Die, Die, DIE! when ulting.
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I'd love to hear him shout Die, Die, DIE! when ulting.
Karthus probably finds that "too edgy."
Fallen Artemis2 votesOverwatch called, they want Reaper back
Ralanr4 votesAnd I shall respond technically daily! For the Lightbringer!
Craft Zeppelin4 votesBut I personally like it suddenly coming out without warning. lol
Fondling Gems14 votesI mean they still see the beam and sound effect the whole time.
Craft Zeppelin1 votes[{quoted}](name=Fondling Gems,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=5kQc0fwN,comment-id=00050000,timestamp=2017-05-24T08:15:04.481+0000)
I mean they still see the beam and sound effect the whole time.
Death is sudden, and will always get you is his theme. It doesnt need to be loud.
Melledoneus6 votesActually Karthus is about "death is coming, but you can do nothing to stop it."
That's why he screams out poetic threats while ulting. He's a very show-y lich.
Sinlaire2 votesthe point isn't to be loud. it's to be an impending doom.
Global Karthus lines on ult make it more of a "last rites before death" sort of thing. A quick prayer before he makes the pain stop.
Like hanging onto a rope and instead of just hoping the line doesnt snap, you get to hear the man telling you goodbye as he's cutting it
Thrill Moentral2 votesI would love this! Especially since I use the Pentakill skin for Karthus.
Sadly, I remember a post from Riot saying that they don't plan on making so Karthus's ult VO global, because some of his quotes are pretty long. I couldn't link you to it, though.
Dataless2 votes
Ult says what?
"too noisy" stfu Riot.
TyrekGoldenspear2 votes
doesn't get one either. Can we get her in too?
Darth Pixy Misa1 votesRiot has said that they cant make Karthus's ult global because it would mean that they would have to change stuff in the game.....
I dont get this response, the VOs, and translations are already there for the normal ult, across all regions with the correct timings, all Riot has to do is weed thru their spaghetti code and implement it. The timing doesnt have to be perfect either, i am sure there are ways to to get the quote timing right for all regions. Riot in this case is like a lazy cat that just doesnt want to do anything.
IT is not really fair to Karthus. Kalista gets her meaningless global notification VO, illoai has global notification sounds that are even less usefull than kalista's.... As of right now Rek'sai and Sion are the only champs using global sounds right. When you hear Sion's global ult sound go off it means the pain train is coming, for instance. Karthus should have some VO sound to accompany the visual effects that happen on champs before the ult goes boom.
MunchCrunchLunch1 votesdamn. didn't they say they will fix it like 8 months ago?
ReZisT Lust1 votesI mean hes just casting the spell empowered maximized magic missile and last time i cheked it does require somatic and vocal components however i could imagine him casting send message while doing it
GigaPube1 votesglad you made a joke of those typical cringey title openers like "daily reminder" "PSA" "petition to" "dear riot", or anything else used for clickbait
anyway, that would be nice, however thematically its the damage that targets globally, not his voice that he throws or whatever. also it will only block out other possible sounds needed to be heard so we probably wouldnt want too much things to be easily cluttered, like if this hda global sound then why not make ashes 3 second stun global so then you know that a teammate has died before they actually have. bad example but wotevz m8, shit like that
