Karthus

the Deathsinger

JunglePatch 16.19Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

51%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

932

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite
69%51%647
Exhaust + Smite
26%51%239
Smite + Ignite
4.9%—46

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Scorchclaw Pup, Stealth Ward
25%51%237
Scorchclaw Pup
23%54%214
Gustwalker Hatchling
14%50%126

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Blackfire Torch → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap
19%56%178
Blackfire Torch → Liandry's Torment → Shadowflame
7.4%59%69
Blackfire Torch → Shadowflame → Zhonya's Hourglass
6.9%59%64

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
95%51%883

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Void Staff
13%60%
Rabadon's Deathcap
11%48%
Zhonya's Hourglass
5.0%—
Stormsurge
2.7%—

Fifth item

Void Staff
3.3%—
Rabadon's Deathcap
2.6%—
Zhonya's Hourglass
2.6%—

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Lay Waste → Defile → Wall of Pain

91%51%849

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 53,272 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.19 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.