Hello Guide Im a D3 Kat OTP with over 900k Points on her, My Main Acc Is On EUNE And I recently Opened A YT Acc :
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Always take flash. No exceptions.


Ignite for better reset and better laning.

Teleport if you like to teleport roam (Don't use this if you have bad map awareness)

So the Katarina rework means big changes for her, but this doesn't mean bad changes... The biggest difference now is that her early game is a lot stronger, and many matchups that were previously hard, are now easier with lots of potential to outplay and kill.

However the trade off for that is Kat is no longer as bursty and does not have as much potential to one shot squishies. This is especially noticeable in teamfights, now Kat needs to play more patiently when deciding to go in, pre-rework if you saw an opening you would take it and go in, but now you need to set up more and be more patient.


Overall I think the rework has been very positive, as it has made Kat a much more healthy champion. It has made her early game much more stronger and given more chance of counterplay when she is very far ahead.

Katarina's early game is very strong, level 1 you should play relatively safe and level 2 and 3 you should abuse your power spike and just play really aggressively. This is because psychologically it affects your opponent and makes them think you will could go in at any chance, but also because playing aggressively is the best way to learn your limits and improve on Kat.
Just like the old Kat roaming is very strong but not necessarily as easy so you should look to roam whenever possible. There are 2 main ways of roaming;


1) The standard 'bread and butter' roam where you push your lane and gank a lane where the lane is pushed to your teams tower or just pushing towards you in general.

2) The second is the tower dive, this is more difficult to execute and usually requires more setup. When your lane is pushed call your jungler and when the minion wave is at the enemy tower either look to dive top lane as 3 or, bot lane as a 4 or 5 (top lane TP).

During the mid game Katarina is at her strongest. you should look to teamfight and skirmish to take objectives or even the nexus. At this point you should be able to carry teamfights because you will have lots of dmg, but moreover they will not have the resistances/tankiness to stop you from bursting them, and they will probably not be co-ordinated enough to counter and CC you, so you should take advantage of the chaos and get a blow them up!

During the late game Katarina falls off but not that much, as she can still clean up and carry teamfights, you just need to be more careful if you can't oneshot the enemy carries and if the enemy is getting too tanky. The biggest mistake I see Katarina's make is that they have no farm, remember farm is what wins game and it is one of the most important aspects of the game, so don't think that just because it is the late game you don't need to farm, getting gold helps to get items and items = damage and damage = pentakills!!!

1) Objective. What do you want to achieve in teamfights as Kat? You want to either deal as much damage as possible or kill the enemy carries. Remembering this is very helpful when making the decision of 'should I go in here?' You want the enemy carries to think you wake up today with absolute hatred for them... If thisis the case you know you are doing your job right.

2) Patience is a virtue. Learning to wait out certain big CC's that can stop you is key for any Katarina, just wait in the backline until the opportinity arises and BOOM they are all dead... Here is an example of a play of mine where I was patient and objective which lead to me getting a pentakill.


3) Distract. A very handy trick on Katarina is learning to go in and use E Q W and instantly using Zhonyas. Why you ask? Well it's simple, during the 2.5 seconds stasis while zhonyas is active 95% of players will tunnel on you and this gives your team the chance to engage on them. Alternatively you could go in and oneshot the enemy carries, and die for it with GA, while you are invulnerable the enemy are very likely to be distracted and your team has the chance to catch up. This can also be applied to Zhonyas in the same situation.

4) But BestKatEUNE, What About If They Save CC For Me? The answer is simple, GG AFK FF 20!!!. If someone on the enemy team is saving a certain spell for you and you only until you go in, then you either
- Peel for your adc - Jump on whoever is trying to kill your adc and distract and kill them first.
OR
- Don't participate in the fight.. If you don't go in then they won't use that ability and your team can potentially win because of it, remember if you try and force it then you will probably just end up dead, you can't do any damage if you are dead

5) Clean Up. Think of yourself as a janitor in the sense that you are cleaning up other peoples mess. Cleaning up just means you wait till the latter stages of the fight and go in and play off your resets. here is an example of me cleaning up...