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Spells:
Ignite
Teleport
Ability Order
Voracity (PASSIVE)
Katarina Passive Ability
Introduction to the guide
If you started playing Katarina or wish to improve your gamestyle, this is where you will get help.Why am I writing this guide? Because for the last few months I have seen most of the Katarinas doing not as good as they could, finishing with stats like 2/4/7.So, here we go :).


My runes include a combination of magic penetration,health and cooldown reduction.Health will help you survive the very early game so that you can keep gaining experience and gold on minions.The cooldown reduction is there to help you chase down people with shunpo and reduce the cooldown of your ulti(unless you manage to kill someone thanks to Kata's passive).
So the summoner spells hmm....I think




Example: Im on mid against let's say lux.I have harrassed her with my bouncing blade to 50 % hp. I let her push a little bit and then i shunpo her.Activate your ulti. while you throw the daggers you can ignite her without stopping the channel. This will make her heal spell worse(if she has one of course) and she will hardly survive that. Don't forget to throw your bouncing blade when she is at the end of q spell range to ensure additional damage :).

Similar choices:

An ordinary Katarina starts the game with an amplifying tome and 2 hp potions so that she may quickly build a hextech which will give her a spell vamp. Yay :D!
Wrong!
Many times I saw people buying the tome to get the hextech gunblade.Gah, men you have a better item to start with!
So what I start with you say? Hmm let me think....hmm.....just a bit.....Oh yeah!.It's a Doran's shield.

If you have health, you survive for longer. If you have hp regen, you don't even think about surviving. If you have ap item for start,you deal a little bit more damage while still being vulnerable to your enemies.
So survi = being longer on your line/mid = gaining exp faster than your opponent(harrass him,he goes back to base, and you keep exping) = You kill your opponent with ease.
Ok now. The skills and what they are meant to do:





That's it :).Now, on to the tips hints and guides:
You start a game.You choose

Once you are summoned to the Field of Justice, buy yourself a Doran's shield and take

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are nothing against you.Whether they like it or not,without a jungler or anyone to help them they are just a few minutes before being killed by you.
Wait for minions to spawn and keep behind.Until lvl 6 just keep throwing a bouncing blade at the minions with low hp.At higher levels you may use that to do both last hitting minions and harrasing the opponent champion as well :).
Do not push too far though before level 6 especially if the opponent team has stealth guys like


Right, you gained lvl 6.What now?
1.The mid enemy is well pushed and I have 1100 gold = back to base and buy sorcerer's shoes + teleport back to mid.
2.I have killed the mid enemy and I have 1100 gold = buy sorcerer's shoes and teleport to bot/top.Yes, it's time to hunt down those low level champions ;).
3.I killed/made my enemy go back to base but I dont have 1100 gold= stay at your lane and don't back. Buying just the boots of speed is a waste of time.
Woah! You have already read this much of the guide! You can rest now for a while, you possess most of the knowledge you need, and we're close to the summary :).
Right, so you have level 6-8,you already killed the mid champion,and killed the 2 champions on
top/bottom. What you are meant to do now, is you have to pay attention to your health again.Buy a


From now on, you will concentrate on ganking top/bottom and making sure the mid is not being pushed.If it is, you are a little bit in trouble, though you may fix that with continuing with the killing stuff you are meant to do.And later, you will start doing team fights, pushing the lanes and finally destroying their nexus.Other than that, there is nothing more to say.
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