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League of Legends Katarina Build Guide

Here is a post about Katarina champion from League of Legends. You will find brief information with tips and tips on how to play Katarina. Read our Katarina build and cheat sheet. In our League of Legends builds you will see the most popular and universal variation of any build.

All League of Legends Katarina Skins

Decisive in judgment and lethal in combat, Katarina is a Noxian assassin of the highest caliber. Eldest daughter to the legendary General Du Couteau, she made her talents known with swift kills against unsuspecting enemies. Her fiery ambition has driven her to pursue heavily-guarded targets, even at the risk of endangering her allies—but no matter the mission, Katarina will not hesitate to execute her duty amid a whirlwind of serrated daggers.

The Sinister Blade Katarina is one of the most popular champions in LoL. Her main role is a assassin and you will see her in any solo position like middle or top lane. Every champion in League of Legends has its uniqueness determined by his skills.

Passive
Voracity

Whenever an enemy champion dies that Katarina has damaged recently, her remaining ability cooldowns are dramatically reduced. If Katarina picks up a Dagger, she uses it to slash through all nearby enemies, dealing magic damage.

Q
Bouncing Blade

Katarina throws a Dagger at the target that then bounces to nearby enemies before ricocheting onto the ground.

W
Preparation

Katarina gains a burst of Move Speed, tossing a Dagger into the air directly above herself.

E
Shunpo

Katarina blinks to the target, striking it if its an enemy, or striking the nearest enemy otherwise.

R
Death Lotus

Katarina becomes a flurry of blades, dealing massive magic damage while she channels to the 3 nearest enemy champions.

Counter Picks and Katarina’s Win Rate

It is great when you know how to play a champion. But much in LoL depends on counter picks. On the stage when you choose and ban champions you should ban the ones that can counter Katarina and vice versa if you see that Katarina is strong against the enemy team’s carry you’ll need to pick Katarina.

Some players prefer to know the win and lose rate of the champion before trying to play her. You can see Katarina counter picks and win rate in the toolkit via the image above.

Katarina Best Build

Below you can see the best build for LoL Katarina which is calculated on the average winning builds in the Platinum+ league. All builds that we share automatically update when new changes or patches appear. What you see below is the build for Katarina on the middle lane.

As you can see from the build above there is mentioned Katarina rune set with the best potential for Katarina. You can see what runes are main for the character and which are taken for some extra assistance. Also, there are mentioned minor nodes that you can take to play Katarina in League of Legends.

Under the rune set, you can see the best summoner spells used with Katarina. The overall tier for the champion is mentioned just next to the summoner spells.

As for the best item set, you can see starting items. These are the items that you need to buy at the start of the game before you go on your lane. Next to it, there are early items, later you will upgrade them to the whole items for Katarina build. Finally, you can see Mythical and Core items that you’ll need to focus on to win the game.

Skill order or skill priorities are very important in the game so that you will start winning the lane before you buy any powerful items. The skill priority and order for Katarina is mentioned under the items. Skill order shows what skill you should upgrade on every level.