Karthus

the Deathsinger

JunglePatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

47%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite
79%45%74
Exhaust + Smite
21%—20

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Gustwalker Hatchling, Stealth Ward
22%—21
Scorchclaw Pup, Stealth Ward
22%—21
Scorchclaw Pup
16%—15

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Blackfire Torch → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap
28%—26

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
88%51%83

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Lay Waste → Defile → Wall of Pain

85%51%80

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q		Q		Q		Q		Q
W				W										W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 7,138 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.17 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.