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Recommended Items
Spells:
Ignite
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Voracity (PASSIVE)
Katarina Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Diana
A classic Kat counter in Season 2. Her kit is too good against Kat because her W blocks your Q poke, and her E can easily cancel Death Lotus. Try to farm and if you stay even with her, you can out damage her in small teamfights and try to get ahead.
Introduction
Katarina is extremely strong in Solo Q because she has high mobility, the best clean up potential, and has the ability to 100-0 someone with low cooldown abilities, and can make clutch plays against many enemies on your own.
Vods of me against Scarra (Can't attach video for some reason, sorry)
http://www.twitch.tv/scarra/b/579592830?t=2h22m40s
http://www.twitch.tv/scarra/b/579592830?t=2h25m30s
9 Magic Pen Marks
9 HP per Level Seals
9 Flat Magic Resist Gylphs
3 Movement speed Quints
Against AD (Zed,Talon,Yasuo,Jayce,Riven,etc)
9 Magic Pen Marks
9 Flat Armor Seals
9 AP per Level Gylphs
3 Movement speed Quints
Katarina needs survivability as you will be soaking quite a bit of damage, and you need the movement speed because Katarina really needs the speed to get onto a good target and proceed to get resets. Movement speed quints are far superior against AP quints overall, as this will help you roam and snowball.
For more damage
If they stack MR
Very strong item in team-fights because it is basically a Quicksilver Sash and a Zhonya's Hourglass into one item. This item will basically remove cc from you because after you die there is a revival period. You want to dish out as much damage as possible and die with this item, so your team finishes the enemies and you have resets to go back in or get out.
Honestly do not like this item. Even if you have a double AP comp against a double AP comp, this item doesn't enable you to snowball in Solo Q. This can be a good choice for beginner Katarina players.
Many players like to rush this, but I don't like it because it delays your core items and early game fiendish codex+ hp pots can do the same trick as a haunting guise. Sure, it give's magic pen, but honestly it's not a good power spike. The Kat players in Korean Solo Q like to rush haunting guise into abyssal scepter and never buy deathfire grasp, but the meta there is different from NA.
= freelo. You get a powerspike each time you level your ultimate.
High Burst
Best clean up potential in the game
High mobility
No skill shots
Easy to dodge enemy skill shots with shunpo
Can destroy people with low cooldowns
Easy to play
Cons:
Weak laning phase
Can lose alot of pressure if you don't stay atleast even
CC can shut her down in team fights. (Especially fiddle's fear, and rammus's taunt)
You need decent mechanics to be able to play her effectively
People may bash you for playing a "no-skill" champion
You can use death lotus even if you don't see the enemy. So if your death lotus icon glows up when you are near a brush, you might be facechecking into danger so either ward that brush and go ham or just ward jump out immediately. You can also use this tactic to hit a stealthed twitch with your ultimate, or use it to locate and damage an Akali that is in her shroud.
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