VU was great but now we really need to talk about a GU for Karthus, Riot

Trash MammaI··2 votes·291 views

His Q and W have been made obsolete now that everyone is getting far too much mobility and sustain built into their kits let's also not forget SO many items are getting MS stuck onto them. It's nearly impossible to land his Q(especially on an isolated target) and his W just gets canceled out by all the speed and mobility.

Then there's his E that has no purpose outside of dying since, being immobile, karthus can't really get near anybody anymore and in any sort of competitive game nobody will just walk into his E and stand on it to take damage. With the item 3116 slow nerf it's even more difficult to get this thing to stick.

Then there's his ult why is there so many counters to this when it's got such a massively long CD even with CDR?

  1. Bard ult
  2. Fizz Troll pole
  3. Soraka ult
  4. summoner 21
  5. summoner 7
  6. item 3102
  7. item 3814 This is just to name a small few that can 100% negate the entire ult let's not mention all the CC that completely stops it if you aren't dead while using it.

Karthus at this point in the game has even less of a purpose than Aatrox and that's really saying something. He's in dire need of a gameplay update otherwise you might as well just delete him because he serves 0 purpose and there is 0 reason to EVER pick him over any other champ in the game.

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ShaolinToilet4 votes

Karthus is a very strong late game carry.

Trash MammaI1 votes

There is no situation in an environment where both teams are playing to win where Kathy's would be a strong carry especially not in the late game. There's 0 reason to pick him over say Annie brand or orianna for ex. His entire kit can be completely negated by building normally.

ChaddyFantome1 votes

Karthus is perfectly fine. I fail to see what is wrong with him to where he needs a GU.

badooga1 votes

All he needs is for his W to steal mr from its target and give it to Karthus, as well as an increase in his base armor. This way, he can trade a bit better with his lane opponents early game.

Catastrop1 votes

Karthus didn't even build item 3116. Also, why people think Karthus ult being blocked by lots of things is bad is beyond me. That's more a boon than anything because it means late game, you use it off CD before teamfights to burn those important CDs. item 3190 item 3814 item 3157 summoner 21 and a few champion specific ones, and if they didn't they're going to suffer hard for it either way because they'll be going into the fight at 1/2-1/4 hp.

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