[Champion] Karthus - Page 8

On December 23 2011 22:52 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:

Pretty sure scarlet quit playing? Can anyone verify that? At the very least I haven't ran into him in ages.

On December 24 2011 22:20 MyTHicaL wrote:
ok zerg russian(rus...). No top solo karthus player builds like that or should. Its pretty much the lamest way to build him. But then this is a low skill game to begin with so I guess anything flies. Since your question to 2 top tier players was probably sent pre season 2, the answer has no bearing. I resent the fact that u say "dont listen to him, this is how ur supposed to do it; these 2 "pros" (the idea of a LoL pro is a joke anyways) told me to do this so this must be the only way!" without actually using any arguments whatsoever to back it up. Real constructive kiddo.
Especially since the definate mainstream build at high level is: RoA into Rabadans.

On December 24 2011 23:09 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:

Hi, I'm 5HITCOMBO. The name "ZERG_RUSSIAN" is a play on words that probably went over your head ("zerg rushing"). Sorry for the sophisticated humor, I shouldn't assume everyone is a strong reader. Who are you cuz I was plat S1 and I have literally every high elo karthus on my friends list.

Like, if you're platinum atm or were ever 2k+ I'll listen to you because you might know what you're talking about but I'm pretty sure that your advice is horrible because it's directly in contrast to what two of the best karths to ever play the game say.

I hate to be pulling rank but seriously the first post I read from you had something like "karthus doesn't have mana problems" in it.

I'll expand even more--revolver lets you straight up solo people 1v1 with your vamp. You still get catalyst, it's part of the core, and obviously you're not finishing AA until your last item, but you can't pass up wota as an item on karth considering that it gives you (and your team) massive sustain. Generally I make the catalyst into a banshee's because I run flat ap/mpen/scaling ap/scaling ap on karthus and get rylais for the hp slot because rylais is retarded good and I generally hate having both rod and rylais on a champ because usually the rod could be a deathcap or an abyssal.

On December 25 2011 04:54 SHr3DD3r wrote:
I actually think karthus shouldn't get Wota until after Deathcap atleast, preferably after Rylais. Unless you have another AP in the team in which case you can get it before Deathcap. During that time its far more useful for him to have pure damage, then spell vamp imo.

On December 25 2011 04:54 SHr3DD3r wrote:
I actually think karthus shouldn't get Wota until after Deathcap atleast, preferably after Rylais. Unless you have another AP in the team in which case you can get it before Deathcap. During that time its far more useful for him to have pure damage, then spell vamp imo.

On December 16 2011 09:42 MyTHicaL wrote:
I really truly don't understand a karthus pick on dominion... U should not be stacking ANY cool down reduction (except for meijai which isnt even available in dominion) so his ulti is a waste of time... All other damaging global ultis have a smaller cooldown (and for obvious reasons).
Karthus is by far my favourite hero, no not because I love to press R; even though its insane to see the amount of retards incapable of picking up a hexdrinker and then proceeding to complain about imbalances... Karthus' strong point is not his R! NEVER build archangel staff on him NEVER. I mean come on guys, mana isn't a problem after early game- you should be picking up your team's blue every time and I can't imagine straying from a very simple build...
1. Doran's ring (only if you plan/CAN be agressive ie; you are not facing a Brand, Orianna, Xerath, LB, and there are a couple of others that will simply own you without boots.
2. Sorc Shoes (duh)
3. Meijais unless you feel very underconfident; in which case I hope you didn't ask for solo mid in ranked.
4. Rod of ages
5. This is where personal preferance comes into play for me; If the opposing team's ad heros are doing anything positive at all; I LOVE to pick up a zhonya's. Most under-rated item in the game imo. Any competent team WILL be focusing you either 1st or 2nd, when they do pop ur E spam your spells then pop zhonya's, and unless your team is completely retarded, your DPS should be devastating to atleast all their melee chars which is quite simply huge= easy team win.
6. Rylais/abyssal/rabadans depending completely on how you're doing/surviving

My main point is: Too many people rely on Karthus' passive, yes you can die. Does that make it beneficial for you to die within the first 5 seconds as a paper cannon stacking raba/arch angels? No. Your E and Q spamming make you a DPS ap carry, and you should be played as such. Archangel staff in general is just a horrible item and should never be picked up except maybe as a final item but even then... I'm so sick of seeing horrible face-palm-inducing-builds.
Although Karthus can be considered (barely) bannable, he is by no means OP, his ulti can/will annoy the enemy team at low elo early game since if you're paying half-attention to the map (as any decent LoL/HoN/DotA player should be.) you will beable to snipe the occasional hero or 2/pick up assists/save your team mates.
Most people that complain about karthus being imbalanced are just simply too stupid to read through the item description list. I can't stress how badly hexdrinker pwns early/mid and honestly even late game karthus' ulti. Unless your requiem is doing 600+ damage with full magic penetration (which basically means your way too farmed anyways) they should survive it.
Karthus is not a R champion, he is a DPS carry and should be built/played as such.

On December 25 2011 03:24 Abenson wrote:


Just because he doesn't really know what he's talking about doesn't mean you should just bash him like that D:
This could discourage him from posting in the future.

Edit:
ok I just read his post, and it is a bit... obnoxious and naive.
But I still think we don't need to bash and destroy him like that.