Talk:Karthus/@comment-4499945-20140524164047/@comment-8506165-20140526003144

His "shittiest laning phase" has always been kind of exaggerated. Anyone who can safely farm from range under their turret without significant risk of going out of resources won't have an entirely terrible laning phase even if they're kind of bad otherwise. And... well, it's still Karthus, he still deals a lot of damage, it's just early game he's very heavily gated by mana without a charged Tear, and Karthus's strength has always been in his teamfight presence rather than his duelling. So... yeah, Karthus's laning isn't spectacular by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not bad.

I'd still put money on Yasuo winning the lane, if he's good, but I'd not count on him putting Karthus out of the game. If Karthus is good, that is. Heh.