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Karthus icon
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
Cassiopeia Top
Karthus Jungle
Swain Mid
Jinx Bot
Senna Support
5v5 vs SoloQ
-0.6 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
48.1%
-0.6 pts

Similar performance in both environments

SoloQ context: C · 53,712 games · 66.8% banrate

Power curve

Early
56

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

Mid
92

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 icon
Cassiopeia
Alt: Lillia · Rumble
Jungle
Karthus icon
Karthus
Locked
Mid
Swain icon
Swain
Alt: Ryze · Cassiopeia
Bot
Jinx icon
Jinx
Alt: Kai'Sa · Kog'Maw
Support
Senna icon
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 icon
Volibear
Alt: Jarvan IV · Wukong
Jungle
Karthus icon
Karthus
Locked
Mid
Swain icon
Swain
Alt: Cassiopeia · Rumble
Bot
Sivir icon
Sivir
Alt: Swain · Xayah
Support
Pantheon icon
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 icon
Kled
Alt: Pantheon · Renekton
Jungle
Karthus icon
Karthus
Locked
Mid
Pantheon icon
Pantheon
Alt: Akshan · Irelia
Bot
Tristana icon
Tristana
Alt: Caitlyn · Miss Fortune
Support
Camille icon
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 icon
Nocturne
Lane ban
100

Nocturne is a recurring SoloQ counter profile for Karthus.

External SoloQ · High confidence
Master Yi icon
Master Yi
Composition ban
100

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

External meta context · High confidence
Naafiri icon
Naafiri
Blind-draft ban
100

Naafiri 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%
WR
KDA
3.19
DPM
1,119
KP
56.1%

Bot

Viable
493 games · High confidence
54.5%
WR
KDA
2.65
DPM
1,371
KP
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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