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Karthus S Tier ARAM Mayhem Build

Karthus · the Deathsinger

Mage 52.29% WR 9.03% PR Patch: 26.10
Damage Dealt -7%

Karthus is S tier in ARAM: Mayhem patch 26.10 with a 52.29% win rate. This guide covers their ARAM build, augment picks, and Mayhem-specific synergies.

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Karthus ARAM Mayhem Build & Augments

Mayhem-specific augment picks, synergies, and meta data for Karthus in patch 26.10.

Skill Priority

Data date: 20260521

Q>E>W Pick Rate: 37.89% Win Rate: 51.39%
Q W E Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 13.02% Win Rate: 51.42%
E W Q Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 1.75% Win Rate: 51.31%
Q W E Q Q R Q W Q E R E E E W Pick Rate: 1.34% Win Rate: 51.24%
Q>W>E Pick Rate: 24.64% Win Rate: 51.30%
Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R W W E E Pick Rate: 9.02% Win Rate: 51.25%
Q W E Q Q R Q E Q W R W W W E Pick Rate: 1.07% Win Rate: 51.21%
Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R E W W E Pick Rate: 0.90% Win Rate: 51.24%
E>Q>W Pick Rate: 15.28% Win Rate: 51.67%
Q W E E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 5.49% Win Rate: 51.75%
E W Q E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.78% Win Rate: 52.20%
Q W E Q E R E E E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.61% Win Rate: 51.64%
Starting Items
Pick Rate: 79.78% Win Rate: 52.09%
Pick Rate: 71.20% Win Rate: 53.18%
Pick Rate: 66.48% Win Rate: 51.12%
Pick Rate: 57.60% Win Rate: 53.73%
Pick Rate: 57.49% Win Rate: 50.19%
Boots
Pick Rate: 35.18% Win Rate: 53.63%
Pick Rate: 3.24% Win Rate: 49.38%
Core Builds
Late-Game Builds
Pick Rate: 3.71% Win Rate: 55.87%
Pick Rate: 6.14% Win Rate: 54.86%
Pick Rate: 0.91% Win Rate: 58.38%
Pick Rate: 1.56% Win Rate: 54.93%
Best Augments for Karthus
Prismatic
Tier + appearance rate
Void Rift
Void Rift
Win rate: 61.74%
Damaging an enemy champion with an ability summons a Void Scar at the location they were damaged for 6 seconds. If another Void Scar is summoned within 1250 units, through the same condition, both Void Scars are consumed to create a rift to the void between them over 0.6 seconds. Enemies within the rift are dealt 75 to 350 (+ 4.5 per 1 Lethality) (+ 4.5 per 1 flat magic penetration) magic damage and slowed by 99% decaying over 1 second.
Eureka
Eureka
Win rate: 58.56%
Gain ability haste equal to 30% AP.
Jeweled Gauntlet
Jeweled Gauntlet
Win rate: 59.14%
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).
Infernal Conduit
Infernal Conduit
Win rate: 57.85%
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.
Quest: Wooglet's Witchcap
Quest: Wooglet's Witchcap
Win rate: 53.90%
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.
Snowball Roulette
Snowball Roulette
Win rate: 53.95%
Hitting an enemy champion with Mark casts a random harmful summoner spell on them, and also casts a random beneficial summoner spell on yourself. Using Dash casts the beneficial summoner spell on yourself again upon arrival. Additionally, your Mark cooldown is reduced equivalent to 100 ability haste.

Harmful summoner spells include Exhaust and Ignite, while beneficial ones consist of Barrier, Clarity, Cleanse, Ghost, and Heal. If Mark is not equipped, the summoner spell in the slot not occupied by Flash is replaced with Mark.
Gold
Tier + appearance rate

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Recent Stats Changes

Recent Snapshots

20260522_092759 Patch: 26.10 S
Rank: 18 Win: 52.29% Pick: 9.03%
Rank Δ: ↓ -1 Win Rate Δ: +0.04% Pick Rate Δ: -0.04%
20260517_090029 Patch: 26.10 S
Rank: 17 Win: 52.25% Pick: 9.07%
Rank Δ: 0 Win Rate Δ: +0.06% Pick Rate Δ: -0.10%
20260512_082733 Patch: 26.9 S
Rank: 17 Win: 52.19% Pick: 9.17%
Rank Δ: 0 Win Rate Δ: +0.01% Pick Rate Δ: -0.34%
20260504_213411 Patch: 26.8 S ✨ Augment changed: Prismatic, Silver
Rank: 17 Win: 52.18% Pick: 9.51%

Prismatic +Transmute: Chaos -Infinite Recursion

Silver +Stats! -FireFox

20260424_160922 Patch: 26.8 S
Rank: 14 Win: 53.09% Pick: 8.60%
20260413_215021 Patch: 26.7 S
Rank: 14 Win: 53.16% Pick: 8.37%

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