Katarina Du Couteau: Death Lotus

Katarina Du Couteau ~ Introduction

This is a AP Guide for Katarina. Why AP? Well, AP Katarina is a really good choice because Shunpo and Bouncing Blade have a nice AP Ratio, and Death Lotus is seriously powerfull, based on it.

Why Flash/ Exhaust? Personaly I consider Flash beter than Ghost, because it allows you to move through walls and obstacles. Exhaust is the perfect combo with your ultimate, if you Exhaust your enemy and use Death Lotus by him, it will be harder for him to escape it. Some people say Ignite is also a good pick, but your Killer Instincts also has the same effect.

Katarina Du Couteau ~ Pros vs. Cons

Katarina Du Couteau ~ Explanations

Masteries
1/1	3/4	4/4	1/1	3/3	3/3	4/4	1/1	3/3	3/3	3/3	1/1

Personaly I prefer a 9/21/0 Mastery Page, because it gives you the Offensive aspect, but also the Sustainability for the early-game, that you really need, since your starting with an Amplifying Tome.

Runes
Greater Mark of Insight 9	Greater Seal of Potency 9	Greater Glyph of Insight 9	Greater Quintessence of Potency 3

• [Greater Quint of Potency]: It gives you the ability power for the early-game. It really helps you, giving you some damage with your Shun Po and Bouncing Blades.
  
• [Greater Mark of Insight]: It gives you magic penetration, and that increases your damage, and it's viable for the entire game.
  
• [Greater Glyph of Insight]: Same thing as Greater Mark of Insight.
  
• [Greater Seal of Potency]: Same thing as Greater Quintessence of Potency.

Use it to escape through walls or obstacles. Also can be used to reach an enemy.

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Use it to "lock in" an enemy inside Death Lotus range.

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Alternative spell that can be used instead of Flash or Exhaust. Use it to reach someone, or run from an enemy.

Voracity Bouncing Blade Killer Instincts Shunpo Death Lotus

• Voracity (Passive): Your passive is really good when it comes to teamfights. It allows you to refresh your cooldowns, and that allows you to spam your abilities.
  
• Bouncing Blade (Q): Mostly used to farm, but can also be used to damage enemies. Has a really nice damage, and bounces between them. Definitly worth using on a teamfight.
  
• Killer Instincts (W): A trigger ability that has pretty much the same effect as Ignite. The next attack reduces your target Health Regeneration per second. Also it's passive gives you extra damage.
  
• Shunpo (E): It's very versatile, and gives you a lot of chances to do what you want. You can either use it to escape, or to catch someone, or something. There are a few tricks arround it, and that will be explained ahead.
  
• Death Lotus (R): An AoE skill, that channels for 3 seconds, throwing 30 daggers over the duration to the 3 closest enemy champions in a nearby area around her. Each enemy champion can be hit by a maximum of 10 daggers. It has various uses, such as damaging everyone on a teamfight, or just to garantee a single kill. Teamfight mechanics will be explained further on.

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

I prioritize Shunpo, because it has a really nice damage output. Bouncing Blade come next, because they are really usefull to farm, and Killer Instincts are left to last, because it's just not that good to level it up. Death Lotus, of course, is maxed at 6, 11 and 16 as mostly ultimates.

Katarina Du Couteau ~ Shunpo

Shunpo is truly a great skill. Here are a few situations you can use Shunpo:

• Escape through a minnion or an ally.
• Reach an enemie.
• Farm.
• Kill Steal. (don't abuse it)

Shunpo

Shunpo

Bouncing Blade

Voracity

Katarina Du Couteau ~ Teamfights

• Blitzcrank
• Alistar
• Soraka
• Leona
• Annie
• Xin Zhao
• Maokai
• Jarvan
• Nautilus
• Ahri
• Renekton
• Riven
• Sion
• Rammus
• Shen
• Taric
• Fiddlesticks
• Kennen

Shunpo

Death Lotus

Katarina Du Couteau ~ Extras

Katarina Du Couteau ~ Changelog

• [19/02/12] - Guide Released

Katarina Du Couteau ~ Credits

• Txitxa
• mbrydex