Karthus

the Deathsinger

MidPatch 16.19Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

48%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

230

Runes

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash
92%50%212

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
44%55%102
Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
44%42%101
Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward, Oracle Lens
9.1%—21

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Blackfire Torch → Stormsurge → Shadowflame
22%63%51
Blackfire Torch → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap
7.4%—17
Blackfire Torch → Shadowflame → Stormsurge
6.5%—15

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
95%50%219

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Liandry's Torment
8.7%—
Void Staff
7.8%—
Rabadon's Deathcap
6.5%—

Fifth item

Not enough games yet

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Lay Waste → Defile → Wall of Pain

86%50%198

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
E		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.