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Recommended Items
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Items
Ability Order
Voracity (PASSIVE)
Katarina Passive Ability
Introduction


Pros
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Cons
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-Have a really great snowball because of her passive, ![]() -No ressources -Great team fight potential (almost all multi-target abilities except for ![]() -Can detect enemies in bush in a medium-short range (thanks to her ultimate, ![]() -Great harass potential with ![]() -VERY low cooldown on her ultimate, even more with ![]() |
-Melee,but a bit squishy, so be careful for when to jump in and out! -Easy to play, yes, but hard to really master -In team fight without the correct items, she rely highly on her teamates to protect her and distract enemies from her a bit -Her ult is easy to interrupt (any silence, stun, suppress...) |
Farming
With Katarina you will need to farm, and to do so you will probably in most case have to come in melee, which make you a bit more expose than most ranged mid. If you really need to farm from afar


Poking
With



In a single target battle you just poke and then jump in following this rotation Q-E-W-

In a team-fight, let the time to your team to initiate and do the same thing as you poking a single enemy and then follow the same rotation: Q-E-W-R-Q-W and






Pre-level 6, just poke a little bit more then Q-E-W-




Runes
I just pick a classic AP rune page (without any mana because






Masteries
I take 21/9/0 masteries because I want to do as much DPS as possible and I want to be able to survive longer in the middle of team-fight as well as on my lane early game to take the advantage on minions. It is really better to have an high amount of survivability with

I take a basic start with boots and potions, and because




I take



This item is a must-have for

It is just an item the boost your AP a LOT, and because of this it will boost your DPS as well.


I take those because they give armor, and like I said it is really useful to have defense when you jump in the middle of a fight. It also give more AP ans the active of


This item will boost you DPS and survivability in two way: both your auto attack, W and R (that scale with both AD and AP) and abilities will be enhanced by this and will return you a bit of HP. The active is also useful to deal damage and slow your target (in other words, secure a kill).
It give you survivability and reduce the damage that can be negated by your enemies.
The combination most player use, it is good for



Those can be good in certain situation, it depend on how you play:









I would NEVER use those on





How to set it
For those who don't know yet how to set smartcast (I had myself some difficulties finding it), press the Esc. button (upper left corner of your keyboard), go in Keybinding, and go next to the smartcast ability 1-2-3-4 and summoner's spell 1-2, select the rectangle and press the right key (spell 1=q, ect.). Also if you want to smartcast some abilities but not some others you just have to ignore those you don't want to smartcast.
Why?
I use it because it is faster and easier to land skills before an opponent can flash out or just use any other escaping ability. I REALLY like this on


Why is it faster?
I must admit I didn't really knew why it would be faster than just casting in the basic way before I try it out, but now I know it is much easier. Why? Because it will proc your ping only once, not twice (once for trigering your keybind + once for clicking vs once for activating your ability), and you will do even better. A trick I really enjoy smartcast is when I keep a sight ward in my inventory, put it in front of me or even better behind a wall and then just press E over it to escape (or chase) an opponent, it give much more speed to this combo, so more chance to survive (or get the kill).


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