Karthus/Ability Details

Champion	Ability Details	Background	Strategy	Skins & Trivia

Karthus
the Deathsinger

Global, Mage, Mana Heal, Ranged, Scout, Slow

Release date 12 June 2009

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Statistics
Health	390 (+75)	Attack damage	42.2 (+3.25)
Health regen.	5.5 (+0.55)	Attack speed	0.625 (+2.11%)
Mana	270 (+61)	Armor	11 (+3.5)
Mana regen.	6.5 (+0.6)	Magic res.	30 (+0)
Range	450	Mov. speed	335

Abilities Edit

Patch V1.0.0.146
Death Defied	(Innate): Upon dying, Karthus enters a spirit form, which allows him to continue casting spells for 7 seconds. During this time, his abilities cost no mana.
Death Defied is a passive ability that will trigger whenever Karthus dies, making him untargetable and allowing him to continue using his champion abilities at no mana cost for 7 seconds. Karthus is untargetable while in this state and his spells cannot be interrupted. Karthus cannot move, attack, or use summoner spells during Death Defied's duration. Defile will automatically be toggled on if Karthus has learned the ability. Karthus benefits from cooldown reduction during Death Defied's duration. If killed by the fountain Obelisk, Death Defied will still activate.
Ability	Description	Leveling up
Lay Waste	(Active): Creates a delayed blast at the cursor position. After a half a second delay, it will deal magic damage to each nearby enemy. The damage is doubled if it hits only a single unit. Cooldown: 1 second Range to Center of AoE: 875 Diameter of AoE: 100	Cost: 20 / 26 / 32 / 38 / 44 mana Magic Damage (Multiple Target): 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+0.3 per ability power) Magic Damage (Single Target): 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+0.6 per ability power)
Lay Waste is a ground targeted area of effect ability that deals magic damage to all enemy units at a target point after a 0.5 second delay. Lay Waste pops Spell Shield. Lay Waste will damage Black Shield. Lay Waste will proc spell vamp and Rylai's slow as a single target spell, with full effect, when it hits a single enemy unit. Lay Waste will proc spell vamp and Rylai's slow as an area of effect spell, with diminished effect, whenever it hits multiple targets. Lay Waste has a brief delay upon cast before it detonates. Lay Waste's animation can be seen by both teams through the Fog of War. Lay Waste will grant vision of the targeted area until it detonates.
Wall of Pain	(Active): Karthus creates a wall between 2 obelisks at target position. Any enemy passing this wall have their magic resistance reduced by 15%, and movement speed reduced for 5 seconds. The wall lasts 5 seconds. Cost: 100 mana Cooldown: 18 seconds Range to Center of Wall: 1000	Wall Length: 800 / 900 / 1000 / 1100 / 1200 Maximum Wall Sight est.: 1300 / 1325 / 1350 / 1375 / 1400 Slow: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 %
Wall of Pain is a ground targeted area of effect ability that creates a passable wall in a line at the targeted area. Enemy units that pass through the wall have their magic resistance reduced and are slowed for 5 seconds. Wall of Pain can only affect a unit once per cast. Wall of Pain's obelisks (the ends) grant vision of their locations, but the wall itself does not. Wall of Pain's area of effect is slightly larger than shown. Enemy units can be affected by getting close to the wall or an obelisk without visibly touching it. Wall of Pain does not pop Spell Shield. Wall of Pain's slow debuff is negated by Black Shield, but the magic resistance debuff will still be applied.
Defile	(Toggle) - Off: When Karthus kills a unit, he restores mana.	Mana Restored: 20 / 27 / 34 / 41 / 48 per kill
Defile	On: Drains mana to deal magic damage to nearby enemies each second. Radius of AoE: 550	Cost: 30 / 42 / 54 / 66 / 78 mana per second Magic Damage: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (+0.25 per ability power)
Defile is a toggled point blank area of effect ability with two different effects. While it is toggled off, Defile will restore a small amount of mana whenever Karthus kills an enemy unit. While toggled on, Defile deals magic damage to enemy units in an area around Karthus. Defile procs spell vamp and Rylai's slow similarly with all multi target spells and abilities with diminished effect. Defile does not pop Spell Shield. Defile will damage Black Shield. Defile will grant Karthus mana if he lands the killing blow on a turret. Defile will automatically activate whenever Karthus enters his Death Defied state and cannot be deactivated for the duration. This only occurs if Karthus has spent at least one skill point in Defile. If Karthus has max CDR it is more effective to spam this skill on and off than wait for the channeled ticks.
Requiem	(Active): After channeling for 3 seconds, Karthus deals magic damage to all enemy champions.	Cost: 150 / 175 / 200 mana Cooldown: 200 / 180 / 160 seconds Magic Damage: 250 / 400 / 550 (+0.6 per ability power)
Requiem is a global channeled ability that initiates a 3 second channel. If the channel completes, Karthus deals magic damage to all enemy champions. Requiem procs spell vamp and Rylai's slow similarly with all multi target spells and abilities with diminished effect. Requiem pops Spell Shield. Requiem will damage Black Shield. Requiem can be interrupted by crowd control like silences, stuns, knockups, etc. When Requiem is activated, an animation (a red light) will be shown above enemy champions. Enemy champions that were untargetable when Requiem's cast began will not have the animation shown. However, they will still take damage when the channel finishes (unless they become untargetable again). Enemy champions in an untargetable state when Requiem's channel finishes (e.g. Elise's Rappel, Vladimir's Sanguine Pool and Fizz's Playful) will not take damage. Requiem can hit stealthed units, but it will not reveal them.

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