Talk:Karthus/@comment-75.73.184.195-20130103214317

Karthus has horrible engages, he cannot engage, and has horrible dis engage other than a heavy slow. however he's amazing at farming due to the range and spammability on his Q. so any counters to him are people who can engage, if someone can jump onto karthus like talon, katarina, diana, or akali. They all counter him pretty hard, since they can just simply dive him dish out damage and walk away from it without karthus being able to hit them back if they dodge his Q's, but anyone else that also has a farm lane and no real way to initiate, they will generally lose the lane due to karthus winning the farm war, and being a huge threat in the team fight later on.

my build for him would probably end up as sorc boots, hextech and tear of the goddess, robadons, upgrade hextech to a will, upgrade tear to archangels(seraphs), zhonya's, and void staff. That would be my personal build, some items coming before others depending on how fast the game goes and how well you farm.