Talk:Karthus/@comment-89.164.177.165-20121028130604/@comment-89.67.168.214-20121028232313

I think that correctly built Ryze can get close to him. But still Karthus is probably the strongest AP mid in late game.

The reason you could take i.e. Cassio instead is that one needs to reach this late game. It`s a bit like with Vayne / Kog`Maw at the botlane - they scale the hardest from all AD carries, but are also very vulnerable early. Generally Karthus:

1) cannot really win his lane unless the enemy makes stupid mistakes

2) is not the best ganker in the world - and ganks from AP mid matter a lot in the current meta

3) gets shut down quite hard with certain counterpicks (Soraka, Fizz, Katarina)