Champions regularly come and go from the League of Legends<\/em> metagame. While many enjoy high-profile rises or spectacular falls from grace, one off-brand AD carry has been rather stealthy about his rise to power in Season 13\u2014and he hasn’t actually received any buffs throughout this season’s thirteen patches either.<\/p>
That secret meta-beater is Karthus, the Harbinger of Death.<\/p>
Just like in his job description, Karthus has been bringing death and more to the Rift this season, despite not receiving any direct updates since Patch 13.1<\/a>. Notably, that change wasn’t even gameplay related either; all it did was fixed was a visual bug.<\/p>
Karthus has a 54.45 percent win rate across all ranks<\/a>, according to League<\/em> stats site U.GG, when he’s built with the Domination and Precision rune trees. More specifically, you’ll want to build him with Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, Last Stand, Offensive (Adaptive), Flex (Adaptive), and Defense (Armor). In the last five patches, that build has seen him win 53 percent of matches.<\/p>
Seeing as the Riot devs have implemented a more ‘attack damage over attack speed’ approach since the item update in Patch 13.10,<\/a> this has somewhat leveled the playing field for ADCs that are ability power-focused and that’s certainly helped Karthus thrive.<\/p>
