The Blue Screen of Death Karthus

i am cabbage·12/2/2014, 3:36:10 AM·114 votes·12,364 views

Hello everybody, a few months ago I went to Fan Expo in Toronto, where I saw a number of riot employees. I pitched my idea of the skin to them and they liked what they heard about it, so I asked whoever did to sign a poster saying that they support it. You can see this here: Support poster! Each +1 beside a name or at the top right represents a rioter that supports the skin.

A couple said I should try and get some community support behind this, so here I go.

Here is a quick sketchup design from reddit user "TechnoScherzo" Picture!

The Skin The Scythe: A scythe made from old busted up computer parts, the staff part made from a tangle of wires, and the scythe blade itself made from old computer boards. EX: Sound cards, video cards, ram sticks..... etc.

The Cloak: A blue cloak, patterned with 1s and 0s to represent binary, and possibly a hidden message within them, with wires draping down the cloak as well.

The Spellbook: Instead of a spellbok, he carries around an old discarded Laptop

Spells

Death Defied: When Karthus dies and becomes a ghost, with the skin he begins to seemingly glitch out as the passive times out, eventually fizzling into nothing.

Lay Waste: Blue bubble bursts from the ground glitching up

Defile: The active portion of Defile causes 1s and 0s to circle around him and rise out of the ground

Wall of Pain: Firewall of pain. Places a firewall in the targeted area

Requim: 1's and 0's and a bunch of random text appears above the champion. Killing them causes their screen to be a tinted blue instead of the grey. Kind of like when Zilean ults a champion there's a gold glow

Animations

Dance: Possibly a play on Steve Balmers "Developers" presentation

Taunt: "I don't need to crash you, I can defeat you the old fashioned way" Could also have special interaction with mechanical champions : Blitzcrank, Oriana, Viktor, Heimerdinger.

Joke: "bugsplat? Hah, child's play."

I am open for absolutely any suggestions, especially since I am not the most creative person out there.

Link to reddit thread

Update : I'm so happy to see all of the support this is getting. I really hope this goes through and something happens with this, if you enjoy it, send it to your friends. The more support the better!

37 Comments

Riotmoonstones12/3/2014, 1:16:55 AM23 votes

TAKE MY MONEY.

Yavimawa12/2/2014, 4:33:42 PM12 votes

Why blue tint when it could be actual blue screen with death recap fading over let's say 3 seconds. It need to fade so noone restarts their PC xD

Also new VO. Karthus ult should make a sound like PC warning of overheating CPU :D PPL would sh1t thier pants xDDD

Squarefighter12/2/2014, 6:47:14 AM11 votes

Here's an idea: What if you made his Q the spinning beachball of death

AbodyHUN66612/2/2014, 2:47:45 PM5 votes

This skin needs more recognition.

Error Screen12/2/2014, 9:52:09 PM4 votes

THEN MY NAME SHALL FIND A CHAMPION TO GO WITH!

HeadCrusher12/3/2014, 3:03:14 AM3 votes

11/10 would buy. Karthus, a champ I can't play, but carry with anyways, needs this skin.

Gunpoint12/3/2014, 1:21:27 AM3 votes

Why wouldn't you make the wall of pain the blue screen of death :I

Mahnigguh12/2/2014, 1:00:20 PM3 votes

you kind sir...are a genius

Nuparu12/3/2014, 2:41:39 AM3 votes

his W should have mini text with the whole "Your Windows has crashed due to error 0x0000000..."

TommyDucharme12/3/2014, 2:17:46 AM2 votes

Best idea ever.Would get more people to play karthus just so they could play with this skin

Nveriyoth12/3/2014, 2:40:22 AM2 votes

TAKE MY MONEY.

TAKE IT.

TAAAAAKE IT

Vauren12/2/2014, 5:27:24 PM2 votes

Clever, I like it. Gives a new meaning of fear to Karthus.

monkeyhats12/4/2014, 3:07:37 AM2 votes

mr. cabbage, sir, if this skin goes live, I will use it exactly where it should be used. supporting the jarman.

JarvanIV Karthus #whatsameta

PickleBabah12/3/2014, 2:28:57 AM2 votes

You know those bugs that make particles bluish boxes? Yeah. Just do that. If you get killed by a Reqiuem, your screen becomes blue, (though you can still see of course) and the Death Recap is all bugged out.

ƒæµ12/7/2014, 8:19:15 AM1 votes

If this gets added this year it would be a great start to the season. Already out does 60% of the trash skins released this year lol world cup/debonair 0___o

therealdragon12/7/2014, 8:13:52 PM1 votes

Love it! +1

Gigglebytes12/2/2014, 3:38:06 AM1 votes

Love it. +1

MaestroDeMuerto2/6/2015, 7:02:39 AM1 votes

Love this Idea, Karthus needs some love and this would up his play amount and he could be more popular again

test account12/2/2014, 9:57:38 AM1 votes

Yes. Please yes, so much. I don't even play karthus, and I'd buy it.

Elomith12/2/2014, 12:28:46 PM1 votes

Interesting skin i like it but he already has a lot of skins so i hope that don't affect the chance of this working

hartar12/2/2014, 3:42:00 PM1 votes

I liked. I think it fit very well with Karthus.

General Keith12/2/2014, 5:24:59 PM1 votes

Great Idea! +1

BigBrainGlueater12/2/2014, 6:24:16 PM1 votes

Reminds me of Final Boss Veigar. The ones and 0's that is the final boss veigar recall portal should be something like that for karthus but blue so it's different. Overall, this is an amazing idea for a skin +1 Karthus (would buy karthus just for this :))

sakuda12/2/2014, 7:49:02 PM1 votes

I CAN'T UPVOTE THIS ENOUGH DAMMIT

druidbuterscotch12/2/2014, 9:36:37 PM1 votes

this skin is amazing as fck i support it!

Mogarl12/3/2014, 10:29:14 AM1 votes

Arcade still needs one more for 5

MissFortuneMarksman

Sona Support

Veigar Mid

Hecarim Top

Karthus Jungle

Of course Blue Screen is more attached to computers than arcade machines, but Arcade but Veigar is hacking the code already (probably making it bluescreen)

Avious12/3/2014, 11:01:32 AM1 votes

Awesome skin. I would buy it 100% if I played Karthus. Extra quotes and dance are anecessary though.

NA112/3/2014, 1:10:49 PM1 votes

Would buy.

HydraVenom12/3/2014, 2:06:17 PM1 votes

Horrible..Maokai

Shamont12/4/2014, 3:25:37 AM1 votes

yaaaaaaaasssss

SpaceClown12/4/2014, 1:55:11 PM1 votes

Maybe for a custom skin but other than that no its way too....wacky