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The Loop (Games)
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Karthus
Abilities
- Notes
- Upon Death, Karthus loses all status effects (inherently including crowd control effects) that do not inherently persist through death.
- Death Defied's untargetability does not destroy in-flight projectiles.
- Death Defied will always trigger after resurrection effects.
- Death Defied will still trigger if Karthus is killed by the Nexus Obelisk.
- Death Defied will still trigger if Karthus is killed by the
- Karthus cannot be executed by the Aspect of the Dragon during Death Defied.
- At the start of Death Defied, Karthus is set to 1 health.
- Karthus can still regenerate his health over the duration, but he will always die at the end of it.
- After Death Defied ends, the corpse of Karthus will retain unit collision despite being dead on the ground.
- Karthus' mana bar drains over the duration of Death Defied as an indicator of his time remaining in this state.
- Notes
- The delay between the cast and the detonation is inconsistent, but always matches up with the VFX.*
- This is almost certainly a bug. Defile's ticks beyond the first and Zac's Let's Bounce! have similar issues.
- This is almost certainly a bug.
- Applies spell damage if it hits a single target and area damage if it hits multiple targets.
- Lay Waste also plays a different sound effect when it only hits one target.
- Notes
- No additional details.
- Notes
- Toggle abilities do not count as ability activations for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and stacking Force Pulse.
- Defile also restores mana if Karthus destroys an enemy structure.
- Defile will automatically toggle on during Death Defied.
- Defile re-evaluates its damage with each tick, thus gaining/losing AP or putting skill points into the ability will affect it immediately without the need to toggle it off and back on again.
- Defile persists through stasis effects.
- However, it will toggle off automatically if Karthus enters resurrection.
- However, it will toggle off automatically if Karthus enters
- Notes
- Requiem's channel is telegraphed to all enemy champions by a beam of light that descends on all targets, including if they are untargetable or even dead.
- There is no visible beam if the enemy champion respawns during Requiem's channel, yet damage is applied normally.
- Requiem will affect clones.
- Karthus cannot cast Requiem once Death Defied's remaining duration is less than 4 seconds.
- The damage will apply spell effects to targets in an order based on proximity to Karthus. Single target spell effects (such as Luden's Tempest) are thus triggered on the closest enemy champion.
- The following table refers for interactions while Karthus is channeling:
| Type | Channel | |
|---|---|---|
| Attacking | Disabled | |
| Abilities | Disabled | |
| Movement | Disabled | |
| Items | Usable |  Shurelya's Reverie  Righteous Glory  Youmuu's Ghostblade  Spellbinder  Gargoyle Stoneplate  Randuin's Omen  Seraph's Embrace
|
| Disabled | All the other item-actives are disabled | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Usable | |
| Spells | Usable |  Barrier  Clarity  Cleanse  Exhaust  Ghost  Heal  Ignite  Smite
|
| Disabled |  Teleport  Recall  Hexflash
| |
| Interrupted by |  Flash
| |
| Interrupted by |  Silencing effects
| |
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