Karthus

the Deathsinger

JunglePatch 16.21Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

50%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

687

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite
68%52%468
Exhaust + Smite
27%47%184
Smite + Ignite
5.1%—35

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Scorchclaw Pup
26%49%181
Scorchclaw Pup, Stealth Ward
26%55%176
Scorchclaw Pup, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
15%47%105

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Blackfire Torch → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap
22%61%150
Blackfire Torch → Shadowflame → Zhonya's Hourglass
7.1%—49
Blackfire Torch → Liandry's Torment → Shadowflame
7.0%—48

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
91%51%626

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Void Staff
16%58%
Rabadon's Deathcap
10%62%
Zhonya's Hourglass
7.1%—
Liandry's Torment
2.2%—

Fifth item

Void Staff
4.2%—
Zhonya's Hourglass
3.5%—
Rabadon's Deathcap
2.6%—

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Lay Waste → Defile → Wall of Pain

90%52%616

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 38,131 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.21 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.