Talk:Karthus/@comment-1920550-20140728023950/@comment-973379-20140803084134

Never skip tear!. You can live well without ROA through, 1200+700 for no offensive stats is really too much sometimes. Tear+deathcap or, if you need some survivability early - tear+sorcs+haunting guise(30 m. pen ftw). Tear solve any and all mana problems for only 700,while chalice cost 880 and catalist - 1200, so you actually waste less gold than you opponent on solving-mana-problems.