Rate my Karthus Build

Robert Smith··2 votes·725 views

Hello everyone here is my Karthus build and a reason as to why i build it. I tried building mostly damage before but people would just dodge my Q is I didn't use my wall. With this build I do more in team fights and still affect tanks as well. Please say which you would change and, why, what you would build instead, or just say nice build and the try it out and comeback and give your thoughts on what works and doesn't work.

item 3116 : Really Strong Item on Karthus. Turn On E and permaslow, Q someone and land another to slow again, need to slow an enemy to help your ally, ult and slow. Gives health too.

item 3151 : Combined with the slow you get the 4% and do lots of damage for team fights even when you die it still applies. Gives health too for survivalist .

item 1320 or item 1330 : I've built item 3020 in the past and the passive abilities of the other two seem better IMO. Either I need more magic resist and tenacity against a CC heavy team or the cool down for my ult and spam Q's faster to proc the slows given by another item. I get the red upgrade because it lets me run away or towards an enemy with my E on so a bit of engage and disengage.

item 3040 : Standard Karthus Item for mana and gives a nice shield too.

item 3027 : Standard Karthus build. Gives nice amount of stats for early to mid game and fully stacked it is still good too.

item 3135 : I don't know what to build last so I usually go with this. I don'y want to build item 3089 because I feel the enemy team would just build MR against me and the 35% MR pen works nicely with item 3151 .

So that is the build I am doing now with so far a high success rate. This may not be the place to just say "Here is a build try it" but I mainly want to know if there are any huge flaws or downsides to a build like this.

6 Comments

g07h4xf002 votes
  1. You don't need item 3027 on Karthus when you already have item 3040
  2. You don't need CDR boots because he interacts weirdly with CDR since his primary two abilities are Q and E. Also his R will be up pretty much as often with 0% CDR or 40% CDR in terms of having it up during a major fight. Go item 3020 instead.
  3. Swap out item 3027 for either item 3001 (vs 4+ AP), item 3157 (vs assassins), or item 3089 (vs relatively squishy champions).

7/10 build

Robert Smith1 votes

thanks for the feed back will try it out

Gnart Even Close1 votes

Seems pretty solid, except you don't have mana regen. With your massive mana pool though, this shouldn't be a problem. You have to be careful to start a fight with near full mana and health as you have no sustain in this build.

HEAljvLykd1 votes

Zhonyas.

D2Vincent1 votes

My standard build as Karthus: item 3027item 3003item 3157item 3116item 3089item 1314

However, if I need to, I'll try to run something other than RoA if need be. but I run RoA to go Tanky and more mana (which gives more AP with AA)

item 3165: In case of Life gain champ comps

item 3285: I might just occasionally get this over boots for movement, AP and some extra damage with Q spam

item 3151: Melts Tanks

item 3135: Only if they're building heavy MR

item 3001: If I need MR myself and it works with my E

Maximum Morde1 votes

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