Talk:Karthus/@comment-1920550-20140728023950/@comment-24309189-20140801070252

If you ever run into a good Karthus, you and your entire team will fear him.

With 800 AP, which is easily achievable with a RoA, Seraph's, Deathcap, Voidstaff, and Zhonya's, his ult does 1030 magic damage by itself. Add in 51% ignored MR from masteries, Voidstaff, and the wall, he's biting chunks out of people building 300+ MR and 4000 hp from just his ult alone.

Throw in the "I feel like I'm playing URF because of this Q spam" after the wall and he's destroying half your team 1v5 without even being in range to use his E.

This 800 AP scenario is actually every game, for me at least. Karthus can get away with building full AP due to the HP from RoA, the massive shield from Seraph's, and Zhonya's. Oh, and the fact that he can still destroy a team even after he died in battle.

In lane, he has a very easy time farming and stacking his Tear of the Goddess due to the low mana cost, spam-ability of his Q, and the mana regen from his E. (and if you aren't getting a Tear on Karthus, you are insane)

Another selling point about Karthus is, that no matter how far behind he is... he is always relevant. I actually run teleport for this reason. If I fall behind, I can teleport anywhere on the map where there is a minon wave, instantly clear it and move on to another one, and still participate in a fight with my ult.

Karthus doesn't need kills but they certainly do help further his monsterous power. He scales ridiucously well through CS alone, kills and assists from using his ult to help out his other lanes (or that hilarious random kill on the jungler when they're clearing) only serve to slingshot him into his prime.

My build is almost always, in this order, Tear, RoA, Deathcap, Seraph's, Voidstaff / Zhonya's and Sorc boots or Ionian boots anywhere inbetween the items. For some reason, I never seem to go against AD mids when I play Karthus and from the few times I have... I just Q farmed and Q harrassed.

I can almost always get a kill when somone decides to dive me during lane phase. Simply walling them in tower range while spamming Q with E active, I either die and kill them or they die and I live.

I actually think Karthus doesn't have any weakness, (besides the lack of mobility but that is easily dealt with... E W Q spam.) his early game is actually pretty strong if his laner can't dodge a Q or Karthus is zoning.

His mid game is even stronger now that he has some AP from his RoA and is beginning to snowball from ult assists and kills.

His late game... is comparable to that of Anivia, Veigar, Kog'Maw, Orianna, Old Kassadin, Draven, Jinx, Tristana, and Vayne to name a few.

As Karthus says, "Gaze upon me and despair!"