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Karthus Support build & stats

Mage – 16 games · patch 16.18
Win rate
37.5%
Pick rate
0.1%
Ban rate
1.4%
Solo/Duo Flex ARAM
16.18 16.17 16.16
Division
All divisions
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Recommended build

Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.18

Built from single items

Best three items so far

Malignance
Malignance
2,700 gold
Rabadon's Deathcap
Rabadon's Deathcap
3,500 gold
Shadowflame
Shadowflame
3,200 gold
9,400 gold
50.0% WR each item separately

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
Sorcerer's Shoes
1,100 gold
37.5% 8 games

Runes

Domination Domination + Sorcery Sorcery
33.3% WR
3 games · 19% pick
Dark Harvest
Dark Harvest

Damaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim.

Domination Domination
Electrocute Dark Harvest Hail of Blades
Cheap Shot Taste of Blood Sudden Impact
Sixth Sense Grisly Mementos Deep Ward
Relentless Hunter Ultimate Hunter Treasure Hunter
Sorcery Sorcery
Axiom Arcanist Manaflow Band Nimbus Cloak
Transcendence Absolute Focus Celerity
Waterwalking Gathering Storm Scorch
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling

Summoner spells

Exhaust Flash
50.0% 8 games

Each line is the variant with the best win rate among those played enough times, not simply the most popular one. Win rates are smoothed so a lucky three-game build can't top the list. Not enough players have finished the same three items yet, so the core above is the three strongest items measured one by one. Sample sizes are shown next to every choice.

Tips for Karthus

Generated from this patch's numbers

  • Take Dark Harvest as keystone: picked in 56% of games with a 33% win rate.

Items

Most common sets of three completed items

Core build

Not enough games yet.

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
Sorcerer's Shoes
37.5% WR
8 games · 50% pick
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
33.3% WR
3 games · 19% pick

Legendary items by win rate

ItemWin ratePick
Malignance Malignance
 57.1% 44% (7)
Rabadon's Deathcap Rabadon's Deathcap
 50.0% 25% (4)
Shadowflame Shadowflame
 42.9% 44% (7)
Liandry's Torment Liandry's Torment
 28.6% 44% (7)
Blackfire Torch Blackfire Torch
 20.0% 31% (5)

Runes

Most played full pages and keystone win rates

Domination Domination + Sorcery Sorcery
33.3% WR
3 games · 19% pick
Dark Harvest
Dark Harvest

Damaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim.

Domination Domination
Electrocute Dark Harvest Hail of Blades
Cheap Shot Taste of Blood Sudden Impact
Sixth Sense Grisly Mementos Deep Ward
Relentless Hunter Ultimate Hunter Treasure Hunter
Sorcery Sorcery
Axiom Arcanist Manaflow Band Nimbus Cloak
Transcendence Absolute Focus Celerity
Waterwalking Gathering Storm Scorch
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling
Inspiration Inspiration + Sorcery Sorcery
50.0% WR
2 games · 13% pick
First Strike Cash Back Triple Tonic Cosmic Insight Axiom Arcanist Gathering Storm
Domination Domination + Precision Precision
50.0% WR
2 games · 13% pick
Dark Harvest Cheap Shot Grisly Mementos Treasure Hunter Coup de Grace Presence of Mind

Keystones

  • Dark Harvest Dark Harvest Damaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim. 33.3%56% pick
  • Deathfire Touch Deathfire Touch Damaging a champion with an ability burns them over time. 40.0%31% pick

Summoner spells

  • Exhaust Flash Exhaust + Flash 50.0%50% pick
  • Exhaust Ignite Exhaust + Ignite 25.0%25% pick

Abilities & skill order

  • PDeath Defied

    Upon dying, Karthus enters a spirit form that allows him to continue casting spells.

  • QLay Waste

    Karthus unleashes a delayed blast at a location, dealing damage to nearby enemies. Deals increased damage to isolated enemies.

  • WWall of Pain

    Karthus creates a passable screen of leeching energy. Any enemy units that walk through the screen have their Move Speed and Magic Resist reduced for a period.

  • EDefile

    Karthus passively steals energy from his victims, gaining Mana on each kill. Alternatively, Karthus can surround himself in the souls of his prey, dealing damage to nearby enemies, but quickly draining his own Mana.

  • RRequiem

    After channeling for 3 seconds, Karthus deals damage to all enemy champions.