Inting Karthus strategy in ARAM

KFCeytron·Sep 22, 2019·7 votes·3,866 views

Turn on Defile
Snowball in under enemy turret to get turret aggro
Team joins the fight, knowing they won't take turret hits for a while
Spam Q until dying
Spam Q for another four seconds
Ult if it's ready, otherwise continue to spam Q until grey screen

You'll die a lot, but you'll also deal a huge amount of damage, absorb a lot of damage for your team due to not caring about dying, and turn the enemy team's turret from haven to hazard. There isn't really any counterplay that I can tell, because you're untouchable half the time.

14 Comments

XavanicSep 22, 20193 votes

there is a lot of things in this game that lack counterplay besides afk on fountain, so not to sound rude, but get over it

KFCeytronSep 22, 20195 votes

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there is a lot of things in this game that lack counterplay besides afk on fountain

So? Does that make them good things? This isn't an argument.

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so not to sound rude, but

https://i.imgur.com/YREcU6d.gifv

Linna ExcelSep 23, 20193 votes

This is one of the things I really hate dealing with in aram. Maybe riot should halve his Q range in aram when he's in ghost form.

Sightless66Sep 23, 20192 votes

The counterplay is to just fight it out. I love it when an ARAM Karthus is goes for the hard feeder stray because it usually does nothing good. If he goes in alone, than just spreading out will give you more from his death than his team gets. If his team follows, you have turret advantage and can easily turn a fight to your favor. Once you're in the midgame, a karthus who engages can often be bursted and disengaged from, leaving his team in a shitty 4v5.

I'd always rather face this type of Karthus than one who plays the early game safe and goes in second midgame.

1 Inch and ProudSep 22, 20191 votes

its a strat. just like inting sion. ad lulu ect.

SaezioSep 22, 20191 votes

0 counterplay? How about buying a item 3194

KFCeytronSep 23, 20191 votes

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0 counterplay? How about buying a

Building an item to slightly reduce your damage taken isn't counterplay. If it was, old Pantheon would've had counterplay with item 1031 .

SaezioSep 23, 20191 votes

Old pantheon had counter play. He wasn't revamped because he had no counterplay. He was reworked because he was hella binary.

KFCeytronSep 23, 20192 votes

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Old pantheon had counter play. He wasn't revamped because he had no counterplay. He was reworked because he was hella binary.

Staying far away lest you get hit with point-and-click damage, point-and-click stun, unavoidable AoE damage, and more point-and-click damage isn't counterplay. It's non-interaction.

ThisName1sDumbSep 23, 20191 votes

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Building an item to slightly reduce your damage taken isn't counterplay. If it was, old Pantheon would've had counterplay with .

He did.

Nanuk PihoqahiakSep 23, 20191 votes

Uhh, Adaptive Helmet does more than just slightly reduce damage against Karthus lol. The passive alone cuts all of his abilities save his ult by 20 percent. That's not even account for the MR it gives, and the fact that most ARAM teams tend to reroll into long-range AP poke anyways.

Troll SlaiyerSep 23, 20191 votes

do not forget last man standing. i main this in aram

SyrileSep 23, 20191 votes

Honestly, I much prefer a Karthus that does this on the enemy team than one that actually knows how to play. I never use the int'ing Karthus strategy because it is pretty weak.

He dies easily and does a fair amount of damage, sure. But he has far more counter-play than Malphite, or Fiddlesticks does for examples.

Jesi OniSep 23, 20191 votes

Aram is a troll fest... Its not competitive and is not balanced. There is low chance to get Karthus even if you have only Karthus because free rotation is included into random champion roll.

No need to change anything. Not that Riot would care to touch it anyway.