Talk:Karthus/@comment-26489540-20151026231720/@comment-5955640-20151026233435

Karthus and Anivia don't quite do the same thing. Anivia zones and forces people to take slows and AOEs and locks down entire jungle paths while sometimes being completely worthless to kill.

Karthus actually does more poking in lane and in team fights he zones but ultimately he's about getting killed so no one can stop him from killing everyone with his global ult.

They are both pretty good. All of those mages are good and even some of the ones you failed to mention are good as well.