What are Karthus's abilities?

Karthus's kit: Death Defied (Passive), Q Lay Waste, W Wall of Pain, E Defile, R Requiem.

What position does Karthus play?

Karthus is typically played in the Mage roles.

Champions / Karthus

the Deathsinger

Karthus

MageDifficulty · High

Win rate

49.7%

Tier

DJungle

Pick

2.3%

Ban

0.9%

// What they do

// Abilities

Passive

Death Defied

Upon dying, Karthus enters a spirit form that allows him to continue casting spells.

// Base stats at level 1Bar = against every champion

Health620

Attack dmg46

Armor21

Magic resist30

Move speed335

Range450

// Skins

11 total · in-game view

// Playing them · playing against them

As Karthus

Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.

Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.

Against Karthus

Karthus can cast spells for a short duration after he is killed. Move away from his corpse to be safe.

Make sure you always have enough health to survive Requiem, even if you have to go back to the base more frequently to heal.

// Lore

The harbinger of oblivion, Karthus is an undying spirit whose haunting songs are a prelude to the horror of his nightmarish appearance. The living fear the eternity of undeath, but Karthus sees only beauty and purity in its embrace, a perfect union of life and death. When Karthus emerges from the Shadow Isles, it is to bring the joy of death to mortals, an apostle of the unliving.

// More on Karthus

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At a glance

Released: 12 June 2009
Price: 1,575 BE · 790 RP
Range: Ranged
Adaptive type: Magic
Role: Battlemage
Positions: Jungle

Basic attacksPlaystyleAbilities

Mode balance

ARAM · Damage dealt -7%
ARAM · Damage taken +5%
URF · Damage dealt -10%

Ability details

Innate: Upon taking fatal damage, Karthus enters a zombie state for 7 seconds, during which he can cast his abilities at no cost. If has been learned, it will remain toggled on for Death Defied's entire duration. becomes disabled after 4 seconds of the duration have elapsed.
While under this state, Karthus becomes untargetable and immune to crowd control as well as prevents all incoming damage, but is also rendered unable to move, declare basic attacks, use summoner spells, and activate items.

Targeting: Passive

Notes

Death Defied's untargetability does not destroy in-flight projectiles.
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.

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