Talk:Karthus/@comment-16494910-20140209100720/@comment-24527529-20140209224532

I've tried "Glass Cannon Karthus" and while its fun its EXTREMELY flawed where in unless you can get all 6 items before anyone else gets close to 3, you lose.

However, a build ive used before that can be taken as a "Glass cannon" minus the glass, is actualy:

Boots of Lucidity, Archangels Staff, Athene's Unholy Grail, Liandry's Torment, Rabadons, and Rylais's Crystal Sceptre.

You'll want to get tear and chalice as quickly as possible, building them into the respective items after buying lucidity and rylai's (getting the giants belt FIRST will allow you to sustain more damage), followed by a rabadons, and finally the liandrys.

While this is still a bit squishy in its own right, it allows you to take much more damage as well as have the eternal slow from rylais and your wall and bonus damage on liandrys from that slow, not to mention making it hell for the enemy team if they try to teamfight on you. I'm pretty sure if your q hits a single target it counts as a single target spell procing the full slow amount too.

Try this out and see where you get with it :D