Karthus Modification
I enjoy playing Karthus, I am posting this on NA as I am an OCE player and thought it may get looked at here.
I have played Karthus for a long time. Since S1. He was my first love, first '6300 IP' champ, and I haven't looked back since.
PS the new skins rock, esp now the Pentakill skin works as a proper 'epic skin'.
Throughout his time I've seen two changes that I can think of - Karthus no longer 'wakes up' with blue buff (fair) if killing enemy with blue buff from ulti, after dying. I think also the passive was changed, but I don't remember.
His wall cooldown was increased, fair enough also.
However, now sometimes in 1v1 situations when you are oom on Karthus, it's a pretty useless fight, you're bound to lose.
What I would love on Karthus, and it would maintain his character's story, would be a SUICIDE OPTION! Yeah, so you're in a fight, going to die, out of mana, and have your ult up? No worries - auto suicide, wall them, e, bomb and let your ult rip rather than risking just hitting your ult after death.
In short, this increases the chances for a cross kill, and also makes him a champ with a bit more survivability running around the map solo as people may think twice about chasing you, then just flashing away - this will allow Karthus to have the option to basically neck himself mid battle and possibly get the cross kill, rather than being jibbed. Make for some interesting game play.
Also, another angle. Let's say a team fight is about to occur. I know we're probably going to lose. As Karthus, I have the option to suicide before they can get a hit out - so they can't get a kill off on me. But I've obviously killed myself really ruining the ability for my team to win the fight. What choice do I make? Do I go in and try get out and suicide?
If you get where I'm going, this suicide option could just open up a whole new angle of gameplay on him, and could raise his skillcap. Could perhaps get an AP debuff for suiciding to even it out? You guys figure it out, I'm just the theory crafter posting on forums.
TLDR; Karthus should be able to kill himself on queue for strategic purposes due to his lore! he IS death!