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A Karthus
the Deathsinger
Mage
Tier A pick in ARAM: Mayhem
Augment Combos for Karthus View all combos →
Clown College S God Tier
Turn on E, then use Clown College to walk in and burn them. The fear box after death traps people in your E.
Submitted by ARAMMayhem.com
Score: 0
Ultimate Revolution S God Tier
Ultimate Revolution makes Karthus game-warping with near-constant double-ult windows.
Created by ryik from /r/ARAM community
Score: 0
Infinite Recursion S God Tier
Infinite Recursion lets Karthus cycle Requiem absurdly fast and constantly pressure team HP bars.
Created by ryik from /r/ARAM community
Score: 0
Eureka A Strong
Eureka is another excellent Karthus spike, giving him frequent ult pressure and strong snowball tempo.
Created by ryik from /r/ARAM community
Score: 0
Best Augments for Karthus
Prismatic
Tier + appearance rate
Eureka
Appearance rate: 15.06%
Gain ability haste equal to 30% AP.
Jeweled Gauntlet
Appearance rate: 13.53%
Your abilities can now critically strike for (145% + bonus critical damage) damage. Additionally, gain 25% (+ 4.5% per 100 AP) critical strike chance.
If both Jeweled Gauntlet and Vulnerability are equipped, only rolls the critical strike chance of the augment that has the higher critical damage (or either if equal).
If both Jeweled Gauntlet and Vulnerability are equipped, only rolls the critical strike chance of the augment that has the higher critical damage (or either if equal).
Quest: Wooglet's Witchcap
Appearance rate: 6.08%
Gain a Needlessly Large Rod.
Quest: Obtain Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass.
Reward: Upon completing your Quest, convert the items you obtained for the quest into Wooglet's Witchcap.
Quest: Obtain Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass.
Reward: Upon completing your Quest, convert the items you obtained for the quest into Wooglet's Witchcap.
Infinite Recursion
Appearance rate: 5.44%
Gain 60 ability haste, increased by 3 each time you score a champion takedown.
Ultimate Revolution
Appearance rate: 5.39%
Casting your ultimate ability resets its cooldown immediately after its effect starts or has elapsed (75 second cooldown, reset upon death).
Infernal Conduit
Appearance rate: 5.32%
Your ability hits against champions apply a Burn for 5 seconds that deals1.2 to 12 (+ 2.8% bonus AD) (+ 1.2% AP) bonus magic damage per second(1 second cooldown per cast instance). This Burn stacks infinitely and refreshes with each application.
Additionally, all of your Burn effects reduce the cooldowns of all your basic abilities by 0.08 seconds for each tick of damage they deal to a target.
Additionally, all of your Burn effects reduce the cooldowns of all your basic abilities by 0.08 seconds for each tick of damage they deal to a target.
Gold
Tier + appearance rate
Phenomenal Evil
Appearance rate: 27.96%
Gain Phenomenal Evil Power.
Phenomenal Evil Power: Generate a permanent stack of Phenomenal Evil each time you damage an enemy champion with ability damage. This effect cannot trigger more than once every second globally and once every 3 seconds from the same cast instance. For each stack, gain 1 ability power.
If this is your second augment, start with 40 Phenomenal Evil stacks, granting you 40 ability power.
Phenomenal Evil Power: Generate a permanent stack of Phenomenal Evil each time you damage an enemy champion with ability damage. This effect cannot trigger more than once every second globally and once every 3 seconds from the same cast instance. For each stack, gain 1 ability power.
If this is your second augment, start with 40 Phenomenal Evil stacks, granting you 40 ability power.
Magic Missile
Appearance rate: 17.42%
Dealing damage to an enemy champion with an ability within 1000 units fires 3 missiles at them that each deal true damage equal to 0.33...% of the target's maximum health, increased to up to 1% based on distance travelled. This effect can only trigger once every 6 seconds from the same cast.
It's Killing Time
Appearance rate: 14.88%
Upon casting your ultimate ability, you apply Death Mark to all enemy champions (8 second cooldown). The mark stores 40% of all post-mitigation damage you deal to the affected target, detonating after 5 seconds to deal true damage equal to the damage stored against them.
From Beginning To End
Appearance rate: 11.22%
Gain the Dark Harvest and First Strike keystone runes.
Overflow
Appearance rate: 10.29%
Your abilities' mana costs are doubled, but you also gain 10% (+ 0.5% per 100 maximum mana) increased damage as well as self and outgoing healing and shielding.
Grandma's Chili Oil
Appearance rate: 9.59%
Inflicting an enemy champion with a Burn effect releases a chili sphere from the target, landing to a location near them after 0.5 seconds (3 second cooldown per target). Upon landing, a pool of Chili Oil is created at the impact area with a radius of 175 units, lasting for 5 seconds. While you are within the pool, heal for 60 to 150 upon entering and each second of the pool's lifetime thereafter. While enemies are within the pool, they are dealt 100 magic damage every second.
For each unique Burn effect source that you have, up to 10, increase the pool's size by 40 units, its healing per tick by 50, and its damage per tick by 60 magic damage.
For each unique Burn effect source that you have, up to 10, increase the pool's size by 40 units, its healing per tick by 50, and its damage per tick by 60 magic damage.
Silver
Tier + appearance rate
ADAPt
Appearance rate: 15.24%
Convert all of your bonus attack damage into ability power at a rate of 1 ability power per 0.6 bonus attack damage. Additionally, increase your ability power by 15%.
Witchful Thinking
Appearance rate: 12.42%
Grants 20 to 80 ability power.
Ice Cold
Appearance rate: 8.86%
Your slowing effects reduce the movement speed of targets by an additional 100.
Hat on a Hat
Appearance rate: 8.65%
Gain 15 ability power and 8 bonus magic resistance for each headwear item or hat you have in your inventory, reduced to 8 ability power and 4 bonus magic resistance for hats obtained from Cappa Juice and Stat Bonus.
Eligible Items: Abyssal Mask, Bloodletter's Curse, Cosmic Drive, Edge of Night, Experimental Hexplate, Fimbulwinter, Haunting Guise, Hollow Radiance, Hubris, Jak'Sho, The Protean, Knight's Vow, Liandry's Torment, Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, Shurelya's Battlesong, Spectre's Cowl, Wooglet's Witchcap<!--interaction with Quest and Upgraded Items?-->
Eligible Items: Abyssal Mask, Bloodletter's Curse, Cosmic Drive, Edge of Night, Experimental Hexplate, Fimbulwinter, Haunting Guise, Hollow Radiance, Hubris, Jak'Sho, The Protean, Knight's Vow, Liandry's Torment, Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, Shurelya's Battlesong, Spectre's Cowl, Wooglet's Witchcap<!--interaction with Quest and Upgraded Items?-->
Dive Bomber
Appearance rate: 7.15%
Upon death, you explode to deal true damage equal to 20% of the target's maximum health to enemies within 500 units.
Twin Fire
Appearance rate: 5.15%
Damaging abilities launch 1 (+ 1 per 33.33% critical strike chance) firecracker missiles at the target that each deal 10 to 30 (+ 7% bonus AD) (+ 7% AP) magic damage (5 second cooldown). Additionally, gain 15% critical strike chance.
ARAM Balance Adjustments
Damage Dealt: -7%
These are ARAM-specific balance adjustments applied by Riot Games to maintain game balance on the Howling Abyss.
Skill Priority
Data date: 20260227
Q>E>W Pick Rate: 38.37% Win Rate: 50.96%
Q W E Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 13.24% Win Rate: 50.98%
E W Q Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 1.67% Win Rate: 50.78%
Q W E Q Q R Q W Q E R E E E W Pick Rate: 1.39% Win Rate: 50.84%
Q>W>E Pick Rate: 24.70% Win Rate: 50.82%
Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R W W E E Pick Rate: 9.10% Win Rate: 50.76%
Q W E Q Q R Q E Q W R W W W E Pick Rate: 1.09% Win Rate: 50.72%
Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R E W W E Pick Rate: 0.88% Win Rate: 50.76%
E>Q>W Pick Rate: 14.43% Win Rate: 51.28%
Q W E E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 5.21% Win Rate: 51.34%
E W Q E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.64% Win Rate: 51.72%
Q W E Q E R E E E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.60% Win Rate: 51.38%
Starting Items
Shadowflame Pick Rate: 77.29% Win Rate: 51.39%
Liandry's Torment Pick Rate: 71.14% Win Rate: 53.04%
Rabadon's Deathcap Pick Rate: 68.22% Win Rate: 51.14%
Malignance Pick Rate: 62.16% Win Rate: 49.91%
Blackfire Torch Pick Rate: 48.52% Win Rate: 53.76%
Core Builds
Blackfire Torch Liandry's Torment Shadowflame Pick Rate: 10.97% Win Rate: 56.02%
Malignance Liandry's Torment Shadowflame Pick Rate: 7.96% Win Rate: 51.59%
Malignance Shadowflame Rabadon's Deathcap Pick Rate: 7.87% Win Rate: 48.20%
Blackfire Torch Liandry's Torment 
Rylai's Crystal Scepter Pick Rate: 3.51% Win Rate: 56.09%
Malignance Shadowflame Liandry's Torment Pick Rate: 2.92% Win Rate: 49.59%
Recent Stats Changes
Recent Snapshots
20260228_125725 • Patch: 26.4 • A
Rank: 29 Win: 51.45% Pick: 7.81%
20260228_115713 • Patch: 26.4 • A
Rank: 29 Win: 51.45% Pick: 7.81%
Rank Δ: ↑ +1 Win Rate Δ: +0.01% Pick Rate Δ: +0.06%
20260227_233610 • Patch: 26.4 • A
✨ Augment changed: Prismatic
Rank: 30 Win: 51.44% Pick: 7.75%
Rank Δ: ↑ +4 Win Rate Δ: +0.04% Pick Rate Δ: +0.21%
Prismatic +Void Rift -Snowball Roulette
20260224_182829 • Patch: 26.4 • A
Rank: 34 Win: 51.40% Pick: 7.54%
20260224_182114 • Patch: 26.4 • A
Rank: 34 Win: 51.40% Pick: 7.54%
20260224_181350 • Patch: 26.4 • A
Rank: 34 Win: 51.40% Pick: 7.54%
Rank Δ: ↑ +3 Win Rate Δ: +0.02% Pick Rate Δ: +0.17%
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