League-of-legends – What happens when you use Yorick’s ultimate on Karthus

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Does Karthus's passive kick in before or after Yorick's ultimate goes off? Or does the Death Defied work both times that Karthus "dies"?

Best Answer

In a patch a few months ago they established an order of operations for all of the post-death effects. I'll try to find it and link it here, but I know that these 2 effects occur in this order:

  1. Karthus is ulted by Yorick and dies
  2. Karthus gets to run around as Yoricks Ghost
  3. Karthus passive kicks in and he can cast spells but not move

EDIT

I can only find a link to the Riot patch where they define the order for death preventing effects.

On the LeagueOfLegends Wikia, we have an order defined for after-death effects which appears accurate to me.