Talk:Karthus/@comment-1920011-20140522215301/@comment-8506165-20140526004131

Speccing in utility is probably overkill. To go high enough for spellvamp you'd have to trade out some delicious offensive masteries. But yeah, spellvamp quints are the way to go. They let you survive early game better and they're not entirely useless late game. Besides, what else are you going to get? AP quints are just kind of pointless on Karthus - you're not looking to snowball off the early kills on your lane opponent, you're Karthus. MPen quints are sort of worth for lategame, I suppose, but I wouldn't trade the better laning off spell vamp for a marginally better late when Karthus already wrecks face in late... provided he hasn't been horrendously shut down. Aside from that... MS quints? Not really your job to initiate... Armor/MR? Well, possibly, but spell vamp is already a good way to stay safe in lane, and is more useful later on. So... yeah. I always run these on the Deathsinger.