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Runes: CONQUEROR+MS
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+15-140 HP (lvls 1-18)
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Recommended Items
Items
Ability Order E MAX WHEN PLAYING WITH AD ITEMS AS STARTERS/PATHING AD BUILD
Voracity (PASSIVE)
Katarina Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Fizz
Fizz is a very hard matchup. He deals way more damage than Katarina does, and his laningphase is more consistent. He has a big escape as well so its also hard for junglers to help you out. DO NOT PUSH LANE EARLY LEVELS! Best option is to not trade him BEFORE LV3 and the optimal buildpath is ELECRTO+BONEPLATING+DOUBLEMR OR CONQUEROR+BONEPLATING+OVERGROWTH , starting DSWORD and trying to get advantage level 3
Braum
ANY FRONTLINE ENGAGE CHAMP IS THE BEST SYNERGY FOR KATARINA, ALL YOU NEED IS SETUPS IN FIGHTS! Also Braum's passive works very nicely with Katarina. Katarina after season 11 Updates is incentred on ON-HIT DAMAGE. Every on-hit can proc Braum's passive. Ideally Braum is the best ally to play around with Katarina, If you ult on an enemy with Braum's passive mark applied you will instantly stun him! Same goes for Shunpo, wich also deals on-hit damage!
Braum
ANY FRONTLINE ENGAGE CHAMP IS THE BEST SYNERGY FOR KATARINA, ALL YOU NEED IS SETUPS IN FIGHTS! Also Braum's passive works very nicely with Katarina. Katarina after season 11 Updates is incentred on ON-HIT DAMAGE. Every on-hit can proc Braum's passive. Ideally Braum is the best ally to play around with Katarina, If you ult on an enemy with Braum's passive mark applied you will instantly stun him! Same goes for Shunpo, wich also deals on-hit damage!
Champion Build Guide
Heeeey, welcome to my " KATARINA GUIDE". Im an Italian Master ![]() I started playing in middle Season9 and peaked Diamond I in early Season10. I know it sounds weird but, hold on, it wasnt my first experience on MOBA games. I played DOTA 2 for years! So when switching to League of Legends I was still in my environment. As I said , I come from Dota2, and in Dota details and game knowledge is a MUST. That's why I decided to make a guide, I really like to speculate on the game details and share with you guys my experiences and knowledge.I really hope this guide will help you out and answer some of the questions that playing ![]() So, with all that being said, hope you enjoyed the guide, I will do my best to keep it updated and make sure noone will be missing out on new builds and playstyles. Thanks for passing by, and enjoy spinning aroud with your kat ;D |


Here's my stream, If you are interested you can pass by and say Hi I stream almost every day and you can find me HERE |
Im also trying to make some videos im posting a lot of MATCHUP-GUIDES go check them out if you want , for now I edit them myself, you can find the channel:HERE |
• Extremely fun to play • Good scaling • Insane mobility • High mechanical skill-roof • Rewarding when played correctly • Insanely strong while snow-balling |
• Very hard to master mechanically and macro wise • Has barely any winning matchups • Sensible to burst-damage • Sensible to Crowd Controls • Her mistakes are easily punishable • Hard to get consistent high CS/m |
BEST PRIMARY TREES |
THE SELECTION OF THE KEYSTONE/RUNES HAS TO BE BASED FIRST ON THE LANE MATCH-UP AND THEN ON THE ENEMY GENERAL TEAM-COMP
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•PERSONAL TIP: The best tip I can give you in order to learn her is PLAY HER A LOT and also WATCH A LOT OF STREAMS/VIDEO Watching streams and videos allows you to experience situations even if you didnt had the opportunity to play them yourself. I know is weird but for me, watching others really helped me out on gaining confidence on the champion and knowing what to do in almost any situation. |
KATARINA TRICKS |
•WALL-JUMP: You can walljump with ![]() The trick can be executed by placing ![]() ![]() ![]() |
•LONG RANGE SHUNPO: This trick allows you to instantly ![]() ![]() I use it mostly to surpise the enemy thanks to the very LONG RANGE, its basically instant if you do it in the correct way. The trick is simply pressing both ![]() ![]() |
•FLASH -> DISENGAGE: Consists in using ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, you picked up the Q ![]() ![]() ![]() In that way you can bait some CC/SET UP SOME DAMAGE on the first jump you make and then you can go back in on the W ![]() ![]() |
•AUTO+E+AUTO Katarina's ![]() We can maximixe our damage out-put by resetting our basics with ![]() Auto-resettig is important in order to deal proper damage expecially in the laning-phase while we are playing with ![]() |
•FLASH+Q+E+AUTO: This is an insane combo , designed to take off-guard enemies when they are very low hps. If done correctly you will give the enemy literally 0 reaction-time since is too fast to react. The combo consists in using your ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I reccomend to try this combo in practice tool several times before using it in-game |
MATCH-UP GUIDES |
I recently started to make some MATCHUP GUIDES where Im gonna explain everything about the matchup from the starting items , core first items , trades and lane tips I really hope you will find this content usefull and will help you out troughout your path to become an insane ![]() Remember, in order to be CONSISTENT its important to have good laning-phase and matchup knowledge foundation! I will be posting both on youtube and on the guide as soon as I make new matchup guides! |
LANING PHASE |
Laning as Katarina is the hardest thing to do, BUT is also the MOST IMPORTANT. Knowing how to lane into all the matchups is exactly whay you need to make sure you will be able to have an IMPACT IN EVERY GAME YOU PLAY! Katatina is known for her weak laningphase , but if you wanna become a Katarina master you will have to adapt and manage to play around any matchup. You can check the champion threats , I explained overall how the matchups should be played (the hardest ones). |
The basics of laning as Katarina are: |
•WAVE MANAGEMENT: Do not push lane for no reason, further you are from your tower, easier is for enemy midlaner to freeze the wave and easier is for enemy jungler to kill you with ganks. Also most matchups you NEED TO NOT PUSH EARLY LEVELS to make sure you have SPACE TO ALL-IN level 3 ES: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
•CSing: Having perfect CS on Katarina is almost impossible, the only way you will find yourself in a position where you can CS properly is when you already snowballed on enemy midlaner , and you are the one in control of the lane-state. In my experience IS NOT WORTH TO GET HARASSED FOR EARLY MINIONS, if you get outlaned before lv3 only to get a few CS more is absolutely not worth it. MOST OF THE TIMES IS BETTER TO GIVE UP CS BUT MAKE SURE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO LANE PROPERLY AND DONT LOSE XP.(ES:Orianna matchup , you just give up everything and you lasthit only what you can, if you manage to get lv3 with a good wave position you can easily all-in and solokill) |
•SAFE TRADING: Trading in the midlane is one of the most important things. We wanna make sure we are trading properly in every matchup in order to pull off solokills or let our jungler gank our lane. For this reason , Im making a lot of matchup guides on my youtube channel, in English and with full explaination of the matchup plus the starting and core items. So make sure you check them out! A good way to trade properly overall is with Q+E+W+E(OUT)//(IN) , consists in landing a ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We can either commit and prolong the trade or ![]() |
•MAP AWARENESS: Having a good map awareness is crucial in order to use our roaming potential. We have to know what is happening is side-lanes and what summoner spells they used in order to ROAM OR TELEPORT on the sides and take free kills! Most of Katarina's Kills come from jungle schermishes or side-lane kills so its important to have the habit to check sides or jungle with our cam view, and taking as much infos as possible on the current state of the game and learning how to use those informations for snowball games! |
•LEVEL 3 SOLOKILLS In a lot of matchups giving up early first waves CS its important. For example against ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Losing half-health for a couple of minions of the first wave is something we need to avoid. Taking that much damage will get us too low , waste sustain and make us unable to follow up early schermishes due to our low hps. ![]() Also we will be able to take solokills from level 3 , so getting there full-hp while having all pots is a good way to get solokills in lane. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
ROAMING BASICS |
Ok, remember that waves crash in the middle of the lane every "":30 seconds , DO NOT ROAM WHEN ENEMY WAVES ARE CRASHING UNDER YOUR TOWER There's a trick to SHOVE THE WAVE PROPERLY, you need to wait the wave to fix to a position, then place a ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have ![]() ![]() ![]() A single kill is not worth, even if you get it, losing a whole wave is not worth 1 KILL , unless its a big shutdown of course. I cant find the exact numbers from this patch of A WHOLE WAVE OF MINION GOLD AND EXP I'll make sure to inform myself on the details and update this section. For now all I can say is , when you are attempting a roam MAKES SURE YOU SHOVED YOUR WAVE UNDER ENEMY TOWER AND TRY TO COME BACK INTO YOUR LANE AT "":30/"":00 WHEN WAVES ARE CRASHING!(every 30 seconds) Also make sure you know the position of enemy jungler and you are aware of the position of your own jungler, I know there are a lot of factors to consider, but with time and practice all these details will become AUTOPILOTED. In my opinion when you AUTOPILOT and still manage to consider all these variations your skill level will increase exponencially! Roaming doesnt mean we have to pull-off a sidelane gank every time MOST OF THE TIMES JUST LEAVING LANE AND PRETENDING TO ROAM GIVES YOUR SIDES ADVANTAGEyou can do that by just shoving the wave and sitting in a side-bush of the midlane if you already know there is nothing you can do on the map in that exact time, becaouse enemy midlane will ping you are missing, making enemy bot play safe and give space to your botlane if they are being pressured under tower, same goes for toplane pressure or jungle pressure. Also pretending to roam can be an easy fix for the lane if enemy mid is freezing it. Since you are faking a roam, the enemy mid will more likely shove the wave to potentially follow your roams. |
TEAM-FIGHTING BASICS |
![]() Teamfighting as ![]() BASED ON WHAT YOU ARE BUILDING YOUR PLAYSTYLE IN TEAMFIGHTS HAS TO BE ADAPTED. Exactly, what you build, makes your champion A DIFFERENT CHAMPION. If we are talking about ONESHOT-BURST builds you will focus mostly on ![]() ![]() NEVER ENGAGE and NEVER COINFLIP FIGHTS, be aware of what cc's they have in their pockets and start projecting and immaginating what is going to happen when you pick up that ![]() Knowing what spells they have to stop you and considering all of them allows you to be prepared and have BETTER REACTION TIME TO SKILLSHOTS AND CC'S. If we are playing instead on a BRUISER-LIKE BUILD where sustained damage is the foundament of the build, you will have to look for POKE ![]() And you can also take a bit more risks since usually these builds allow you to build a lot of hps/resistances. |
•ANALIZE THE SITUATION Its important in every teamfight to analize the situation and predict what is going to happen before going in as ![]() |
•WAIT OUT TARGET CC's/ESCAPES Make sure to wait out target CC's and Escapes of the enemy team for example ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
•TARGET SELECTION Based on your overall damage-output choose a target to reset on |
•FRONT TO BACK Can be applicable to ![]() ![]() ![]() |
•BACK TO FRONT One of the most common options, just ignore the frontline and rush for the high priority targets , its important to have a good positioning in the teamfight in order to flank properly the backline |
•PRIORITY TARGETING If you can't kill or get a reset do not go in. Knowing your damage out-put is important. This is where experience and practice pays out, make sure that whenever you are going into a teamfight you are choosing an almost *100% resettable target*. |
•POSITIONING Positioning as ![]() We have to make sure we are in a good spot to both join the fight easily and avoid getting instalocked from ccs or bursted down from high-damage spells. This is where movement speed is important. Lately im running ![]() ![]() ![]() Its also easier to select the target thanks to the movement speed! And overall having that movement speed boost troughout the game will allow us to also get more side-lane farm and be always the highest level on the map! |
THANKS FOR PASSING BY, I REALLY HOPE YOU WILL FIND THIS GUIDE USEFULL LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT AND IF YOU HAVE ANY BUILD SUGGESTION! ALSO FEEL FREE TO PASS BY MY STREAM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I'LL BE GLAD TO ANSWER THEM! |
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