So why is the boards complaining about Karthus?

After3perma··3 votes·1,719 views

Karthus is not even a strong champion. Not even close.

His W barely slows any target so you can't even land a Q properly on a target that is even slowed by W. His E deals negligible damage while draining his entire mana bar quicker than you can blink. His Q has such a massive delay of 0.5 seconds, it is a laughable ability as any target can dodge the Q spam. His ultimate has one fo the longest cooldowns of an ultimate in the game (200 / 180 / 160s), and for a champion that doesn't build much CDR it is ridiculous. Also the fact his ultimate damage can be countered by magic resist, Zhonyas and other items, and his ultimate is a channel that doesn't go on reduced cooldown or mana refunded if interrupted.

The only thing going for Karthus right now, is suiciding into the enemy team and spamming his abilities while being untargetable.

The main root of the problem is Dark Harvest, not Karthus. STOP saying that Karthus needs to be nerfed. Dark Harvest needs to be nerfed and Karthus needs to be buffed instead.

Make Karthus Q delay scale down with rank from 0.5sec all ranks to 0.5 / 0.45 / 0.4 / 0.35 / 0.3 seconds based on rank. Make Karthus R have a lower cooldown and also give a reduced cooldown and refund the mana cost if the channel gets interrupted.

10 Comments

Killer of Night95 votes

Karthus ult should not be buffed nor nerfed. They should removing the issue (DH instead). Karthus after the W buff was fine.

Warlord Rhinark2 votes

Dark Harvest is the problem.

mack91121 votes

We fear that we dont understand

AR URF1 votes

Dark harvest procs with his ult.

Kai Guy1 votes

Well Tank karthus is a monster.

Netorare1 votes

They shouldn't complain about karthus at all, because the problem is DH itself... Karthus doesn't need a nerf. They should just remove DH like they did with banner of command if they are way too lazy to find a way of acutally fixing the problem but yea, they dont care at all.

BenLegend4431 votes

If you look at Riot's nexus article on balancing champs, they list Karthus as "unpopular". He isn't the problem. Dark Harvest is. Since your ulti would likely be used to kill low health targets, dark harvest makes for absurd damage. I went Dark harvest Caitlyn(precision in secondary), and could kill half-health targets with my R(the damage is like 200 at level 6). It's broken to the point that I could take it on ADC and still destroy people. Rework dark harvest again. Nerfing it won't help.

BeatzBoyFTW1 votes

I don't think I've seen threads that concerns Karthus being the one needing nerfs. I just don't like how he became relevant because of a stupidly broken overtuned Rune.

Noor Sakata1 votes

Same reason when they complained about Ahri when she wasn't even the problem , it was a key stone

BLACK REALM GOD1 votes

...see...

this is what i fear.

this is why i never play karthus 100% because i know as soon as i proc a penta the nerf hammer is going to strike. doesnt matter that i'm 5 and 30.

doesn't matter that i now have a 1k gold bounty and 25 stacks of soulstealer to worry about defending as a champion that can either build 2500 hp 220 ap and 4k mana or 1500hp, 2k mana, and 600 ability power. sigh

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