Champion Select[]
- Pick
- Ban
- ▶️ "Ah, the kiss of death."
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️ "So many souls await."
- ▶️ "We all have a place among the divine. We have only to accept it."
- ▶️ "My pilgrimage begins."
Moving[]
- ▶️ "Solace comes with a still heart."
- ▶️ "Shed no tears for the dead."
- ▶️ "May death free us all."
- ▶️ "Follow my voice, and slip away."
- ▶️ "You are only the cocoon."
- ▶️ "Have you ever felt a calling?"
- ▶️ "I can give you certainty."
- ▶️ "What trickery is life?"
- ▶️ "You are the candle burning unto nothing."
- ▶️ "Death is but a horizon."
- ▶️ "Soon, all will wane."
- ▶️ "You have been dying from your first breath."
- ▶️ "We are forever."
- ▶️ "You all die, why not choose how?"
- ▶️ "The Shadow Isles sing louder than any siren."
- ▶️ "You are a doomed vessel."
- ▶️ "The faithful never fear the grave."
- ▶️ "Truth is what I offer."
- ▶️ "In the end, only the dead shall remain."
- ▶️ "Pain is the herald of your salvation."
- ▶️ "Hear the elegy of the lost."
- ▶️ "You will forget breath, you will forget love."
- ▶️ "Death is a song all will hear."
- ▶️ "Never hunger, never tire, never fear."
- ▶️ "Death is blacker than the blackest black... times infinity."
- ▶️ "Tower diver! Gotta' get away, get away!"
- ▶️ "METAL is the only heartbeat I need."
- ▶️ "We totally topped the charts in the Freljord!"
- ▶️ "Amp it up."
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "You deceive your followers. I will enlighten them."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Death's horse needs no bridle."
- ▶️ "You are but the herald, Hecarim. Remember who you truly serve."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Your light is but a candle in the infinite dark."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Abandon your mortality, and find your precious Senna."
- ▶️ "You can always join her, Lucian. It will be bliss!"
- ▶️ "Lucian! Join her!"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "A shell of flesh or a shell of metal? Both ring hollow."
- ▶️ "You give the dead purpose, Mordekaiser. I give them meaning."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Sion, we must free your soul from the prison of flesh."
- ▶️ "You are only the echo of greatness, but I can give you a voice again!"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "You may shackle the living, but the dead must walk free."
- ▶️ "Death has more meaning than torment alone, warden."
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "You are on the eve of liberation, Varus."
Taunt[]
- ▶️ "I will shred your body, and burn your soul!"
- ▶️ "To feel the caress of death for the first time... I envy you!"
- ▶️ "The song of your life will be brief."
- ▶️ "Your death will be excruciating!"
- ▶️ "Life clings like a parasite to a soul!"
Joke[]
- ▶️ "I'm putting your name in my little black necronomicon."
- ▶️ "Sorry, I'm booked through... er, brrrr... forever."
- ▶️ "Listen, mortals, as I speak the word of... my cookbook."
- ▶️ "What's the incantation again... yes, erm... oh, right, R!"
- ▶️ "Do you have a moment to talk about death?"
- ▶️ "Dear diary, met a wonderful ghoul today..."
- ▶️ "When the going gets tough, the tough get a !"
- ▶️ "What have I done? Created beauty by simply rocking! That's all."
- ▶️ "What is that sound? It's the pounding of creation's hammer on the anvil of time!"
- Joking Near an Enemy
Laugh[]
- ▶️ Karthus laughs in a confident, evil manner.
- ▶️ Karthus laughs in a confident, evil manner.
- ▶️ Karthus laughs in a confident, evil manner.
- ▶️ Karthus laughs in a confident, evil manner.
Dance[]
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
Attacking[]
- ▶️ "It is written."
- ▶️ "Ah, the kiss of death."
- ▶️ "Hear my song."
- ▶️ "The rhythm of your life slows."
- ▶️ "Join the chorus of death."
- ▶️ "Your time has come."
- ▶️ "I sing the word of death."
- ▶️ "Die by my hand, and rise anew."
- ▶️ "Rest in peace."
- ▶️ "Expire."
- ▶️ "Sleep without dreams."
- ▶️ "I crave the parting."
- ▶️ "Revel in the undoing."
- ▶️ "Release your mortal coil."
- ▶️ "Sleep now, child."
- ▶️ "Darkness envelops you."
- ▶️ "It's time... to wake the dead."
- ▶️ "Join me in this duet of demise."
- ▶️ "Die for metal."
- ▶️ "Silence, groundwalker."
- ▶️ "Lights out—forever."
Ability Casting[]
Using []
- Triggering
- ▶️ "Behold your undoing!"
- ▶️ "Gaze upon me and despair!"
- ▶️ "The shell means nothing!"
- ▶️ "I am become death!"
- ▶️ Karthus laughs.
- ▶️ Karthus yells.
- ▶️ "Time for my encore!"
- ▶️ "You can't kill the metal!"
- ▶️ "The sustain! Listen to it!"
- ▶️ "Waahaahaahaahaaao!"
- ▶️ "This is eleven!"
Using []
- ▶️ "Feel the frailty of life!"
- ▶️ "You cannot escape."
- ▶️ "Your bodies betray you!"
- ▶️ "Cross over."
- ▶️ "To flee is to suffer."
- ▶️ Karthus grunts.
- ▶️ Karthus grunts.
Using []
- ▶️ "Sing, my children."
- ▶️ "Behold my chorus."
- ▶️ "Countless voices in unison!"
- ▶️ "Rise and sing!"
- ▶️ "Feel the spirits."
- ▶️ "You will not die alone."
- ▶️ Karthus laughs.
Using []
- ▶️ "Die!"
- ▶️ "Surrender!"
- ▶️ "Cease to be!"
- ▶️ "Sing with your final breath!"
- ▶️ "Listen and rejoice in death!"
- ▶️ "Hear me, mortals!"
- ▶️ "A dirge, for those who remain!"
- ▶️ "Perish!"
- ▶️ Karthus laughs loudly and maniacally.
- ▶️ "Everyone will falter when you die!"
- ▶️ "My son, smite them all!"
- ▶️ "I am the lightbringer!"
Shopping[]
- Buying
- Buying
- Buying
- ▶️ "Ah, the song grows."
- ▶️ "I hear the echo of a Rabadon; it is exquisite."
- ▶️ "A crown for the king of death."
- ▶️ "Its old master served my patron well."
- Buying
- ▶️ "None can outrun death."
- ▶️ "This crystal will sing with me."
- ▶️ "When death's grip finds you, it clings tightly."
- Buying
- ▶️ "A tear of loss, a tear of joy."
- Buying
- ▶️ "It will turn their mantles to shrouds."
- ▶️ "What can protect you from the inevitable?"
- ▶️ "No one can hide from the end."
- Buying
- ▶️ "The grave has all the time in the world."
- ▶️ "Freeze that moment, on the threshold of oblivion."
- ▶️ "The sands slip away like lives."
Other Gameplay[]
- Placing a Ward
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- Music
- ▶️ Karthus plays a guitar solo.
Death[]
- ▶️ Karthus screams in pain and perishes breathless.
- ▶️ Karthus screams in pain and perishes breathless.
- ▶️ Karthus screams in pain and perishes breathless.
Co-op vs. AI Responses[]
- Match Start
- "Let me show you an alternative to life."
- Player Team Victory
- "You have earned a page in my book."
- Player Team Defeat
- "GG!"
- Special
- "My song is death."
Trivia[]
- ▶️ " is a will turn their to shrouds."double entendre.
- ▶️ "I am references death!"J. Robert Oppenheimer misquoting the Bhagavad Gita.
- ▶️ "What's the incantation again... yes, erm... oh, right, references Karthus' iconic meme !"'Press R to Win', considering the automatic and almost guaranteed effects of his ultimate.
- ▶️ "I'm putting your name in my little black necronomicon." references H. P. Lovecraft's grimoire of the same name.
- ▶️ "Do you have a moment to talk about death?" references Excuse Me Sir, Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Jesus Christ?
- ▶️ "Gaze upon me and despair!" references Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias, in which a line within the poem similarly states: Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!.
- Pentakill Karthus represents the singer of the band created by Riot Games, Pentakill.
- ▶️ "I am is a self-referential to the band's song !""Lightbringer".
- ▶️ "Everyone will falter when you die!" and ▶️ "My son, are both self-refential to the band's song them all!""Thornmail".
- ▶️ "You can't kill the metal!" references The Metal by Tenacious D.
- ▶️ "Silence, groundwalker.", ▶️ "What have I done? Created beauty by simply rocking! That's all.", and ▶️ "What is that sound? It's the pounding of creation's hammer on the anvil of time!" all reference Brütal Legend.
- A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
- ▶️ "Tower diver, gotta get away, get away." references Holy Diver by Dio.
- In some localizations, this voiceline is changed in a way that references their popular rock songs:
- Portuguese (Brazil): Ratamahatta by Sepultura.
- Russian: Prygnu so skaly by Korol i Shut.
- Spanish (Spain): Entre Dos Tierras by Héroes del Silencio.
- Turkish: Şaşkın by Erkin Koray.
- In some localizations, this voiceline is changed in a way that references their popular rock songs:
- ▶️ "Die for metal. references Die for Metal by Manowar.
- ▶️ "Light's out forever. references School's Out by Alice Cooper.
- ▶️ "Death is blacker than the blackest black... times infinity." references Metalocalypse.
- A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
- ▶️ "This is references Spinal Tap.
- In the Brazilian localization, one of his jokes references Toca Raul by Zeca Baleiro (named after Raul Seixas).