Champion Team PlaybookJungle

Karthus

Win through lanes with gank setup.

5v5 winrate

47.5%

713 games · High confidence

Role rank

#57 / 73

Top 1% DPM

KDA / DPM

3.19 · 1,119

ScalingTeamfightWaveclear

Best style

Scaling Teamfight

Draft fit score 70/100 · Theoretical fit

5v5 vs SoloQ

-0.8 pts vs SoloQ

Priority ban

Nocturne

Updated Jul 19, 2026

What Karthus gives your team

Scaling

5.0

Teamfight

5.0

Waveclear

4.0

Burst

3.0

Hard to execute

1.0

Needs peel

2.0

Win condition

Win through lanes with gank setup.

Needs

Needs lane priority.

Avoid

Avoid invade pressure.

Coordinated 5v5 vs Solo Queue

5v5 WR

47.5%

SoloQ WR

48.4%

-0.8 pts

Similar performance in both environments

SoloQ context: C · 18,992 games · 63.8% banrate

Power curve

Early

Preserve health, waves, and summoners instead of chasing low-value fights.

Mid

Group for necessary objectives only when item spikes are available.

Late

100

Force decisive 5v5s around soul, Baron, and Elder with item advantages.

Role ranking

Among 73 comparable Jungle champions.

Winrate

#57 / 73

KDA

#70 / 73

DPM

#1 / 73

Damage share

#1 / 73

CS/min

#1 / 73

Build a team around Karthus

Three bounded line-ups: the champion is locked, alternatives stay compact, and the score is draft fit, not win probability.

Best statistical fit

Scaling Teamfight

70/100

Draft fit score

Top

Cassiopeia

Alt: Lillia · Rumble

Jungle

Karthus

Locked

Mid

Swain

Alt: Ryze · Cassiopeia

Bot

Jinx

Alt: Kai'Sa · Kog'Maw

Support

Senna

Alt: Swain · Pantheon

Medium execution

Theoretical fit · Champion profiles + composition archetypes

Scaling Teamfight shapeScalingTeamfight

Weak if missing scaling damage.

early

Preserve health, waves, and summoners instead of chasing low-value fights.

mid

Group for necessary objectives only when item spikes are available.

late

Force decisive 5v5s around soul, Baron, and Elder with item advantages.

Safer execution

Front to Back

62/100

Draft fit score

Top

Volibear

Alt: Jarvan IV · Wukong

Jungle

Karthus

Locked

Mid

Swain

Alt: Cassiopeia · Rumble

Bot

Sivir

Alt: Swain · Xayah

Support

Pantheon

Alt: Swain · Sett

Easy execution

Theoretical fit · Champion profiles + composition archetypes

Front to Back shapeScalingTeamfight

Weak if missing frontline.

early

Keep lanes stable and avoid forced fights before core items.

mid

Group around dragon and mid waves with frontline first.

late

Fight slowly from vision lines and let carries kill the nearest target.

Alternative game plan

Early Snowball

56/100

Draft fit score

Top

Kled

Alt: Pantheon · Renekton

Jungle

Karthus

Locked

Mid

Pantheon

Alt: Akshan · Irelia

Bot

Tristana

Alt: Caitlyn · Miss Fortune

Support

Camille

Alt: Pantheon · Sett

Medium execution

Theoretical fit · Champion profiles + composition archetypes

Early Snowball shapeScalingTeamfight

Weak if missing winning lanes.

early

Push lane advantages into invades, dives, plates, and first objectives.

mid

Convert gold leads into towers before the enemy reaches scaling items.

late

Avoid slow equal fights if the comp has been outscaled.

Best bans

Lane, composition and blind-draft bans use separate reasons.

Nocturne

Lane ban

100

Nocturne is a recurring SoloQ counter profile for Karthus.

External SoloQ · High confidence

Briar

Composition ban

100

Briar is useful to remove when you need a stable blind draft around Karthus.

External meta context · High confidence

Bel'Veth

Blind-draft ban

100

Bel'Veth is useful to remove when you need a stable blind draft around Karthus.

External meta context · High confidence

Other viable roles

Only roles with enough analyzed games are shown here. Tiny samples are hidden from the public page.

Jungle

Main role

713 games · High confidence

47.5%

KDA

3.19

DPM

1,119

56.1%

Bot

Viable

493 games · High confidence

54.5%

KDA

2.65

DPM

1,371

57.5%

Dataset and methodology

These pages summarize high-elo coordinated 5v5 games. Public scouting sections use raw game counts for readability; weighted games remain in the methodology because lower-confidence sources count less.

Games

713

474 weighted games

Confidence

High confidence

Weighted WR 47.5%

Updated

Jul 19, 2026

Latest refresh

Source tiers

Ranked 5v5 and Flex 5 samples

Lower-confidence sources count less.

Ranked 5v5 is treated as the highest-confidence coordinated 5-player source.

Flex 5 confirmed means the same five-player group was detected across multiple games.

Flex 5 candidate is useful high-elo Flex signal, weighted lower until confirmed.

Role rankings require at least 100 raw games and 75 weighted games for each comparable champion. Secondary roles require at least 100 raw games and 50 weighted games.

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