Karthus

the Deathsinger

JunglePatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

52%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

694

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite
73%52%507
Exhaust + Smite
23%53%160
Smite + Ignite
3.7%—26

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Scorchclaw Pup, Stealth Ward
19%51%132
Scorchclaw Pup
19%56%131
Scorchclaw Pup, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
16%51%110

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Blackfire Torch → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap
20%61%141
Blackfire Torch → Liandry's Torment → Shadowflame
8.1%54%56
Blackfire Torch → Shadowflame → Zhonya's Hourglass
7.1%—49

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
93%53%642

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Void Staff
12%61%
Rabadon's Deathcap
8.8%56%
Zhonya's Hourglass
6.2%—
Shadowflame
2.6%—

Fifth item

Void Staff
3.3%—

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Lay Waste → Defile → Wall of Pain

91%54%634

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 34,456 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.18 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.