Talk:Karthus/@comment-94.172.19.195-20111227005921/@comment-4184629-20111227030050

His passive doesn't necessarily promote bad gameplay as it has the huge downside of an inability to move. Additionally, late in the game, dying results in a long death timer so dying frequently would leave you with very little helpful time alive. Early in the game dying strengthens your enemies and doing it too much will leave you underpowered compared to your enemy. Suiciding with Karthus is a highly situational thing that is done only when you feel your team can capitalize on your death (i.e. dying under a tower so your team can take it, dying behind the enemy team so they have to retreat through you, or destroy proper positioning to escape your damage output.) He is like any other champion though, dying is something you want to avoid, but Karthus can situationally take advantage of his death. If you are an exceptional player you may never need his passive, but it helps if you do die.