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Choose Champion Build:
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Spells:
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Ability Order
Voracity (PASSIVE)
Katarina Passive Ability
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Bad things about katarina
One of the weakest base damage comparing to other ability power mid champions.
Can be cced easily.
Weak laning phase.
Gets focused in all team fights.
No cc.
Good things about katarina.
She has very, very high mobility. Actually one of the highest of all mid champs.
Incredibly high burst damage.
Not so bad roaming.
Lots and lots of aoe damage.
Easy farming.
No mana.
Can push easyly.
One of the weakest base damage comparing to other ability power mid champions.
Can be cced easily.
Weak laning phase.
Gets focused in all team fights.
No cc.
Good things about katarina.
She has very, very high mobility. Actually one of the highest of all mid champs.
Incredibly high burst damage.
Not so bad roaming.
Lots and lots of aoe damage.
Easy farming.
No mana.
Can push easyly.
Solo q
There are 3 types off good seals in mid at the moment. Its mana reg witch Katarina don't need because she has no mana obviously. Ap per lvl. witch i found is good on range assassin like Ahri etc. but bad on melee champs like Katarina and armor witch is best on all mid melee champs (except gragas he is special).
Ap. per. lvl. glyphs just to get some damage because of her weak early. I'm using magic resist runes only when laning against hard counter lanes (like
Kassadin le blank
Syndra casiopeia)
Magic pen. Marks because there is no better marks for magicians atm.
Quintessence: I use ap quintessence against everybody now days, because I like to go very aggressive in early game. Ms. Quintessence I don't use them anymore but it depends on your play style if you don't like playing aggressive and prefer more passive role they are way better than ap quintessence than.
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5v5 competetive play.
I use magic pen mark because there just no other better marks for almost all mages in mid lane.
Hp per level seals are just to get survivability in lane so other mages can’t just 1 shot you.
2 magic pen glyphs are needed to get 10 magic penetrations from runes and it fills my build perfectly. 7 ability power per level runes is against weak enemy witch cant harass you a lot. Most of the time I use 7 magic resist glyphs.
Same as in solo q nothing changes. Just depends on your playstyle.
There are 3 types off good seals in mid at the moment. Its mana reg witch Katarina don't need because she has no mana obviously. Ap per lvl. witch i found is good on range assassin like Ahri etc. but bad on melee champs like Katarina and armor witch is best on all mid melee champs (except gragas he is special).
Ap. per. lvl. glyphs just to get some damage because of her weak early. I'm using magic resist runes only when laning against hard counter lanes (like


Magic pen. Marks because there is no better marks for magicians atm.
Quintessence: I use ap quintessence against everybody now days, because I like to go very aggressive in early game. Ms. Quintessence I don't use them anymore but it depends on your play style if you don't like playing aggressive and prefer more passive role they are way better than ap quintessence than.
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5v5 competetive play.
I use magic pen mark because there just no other better marks for almost all mages in mid lane.
Hp per level seals are just to get survivability in lane so other mages can’t just 1 shot you.
2 magic pen glyphs are needed to get 10 magic penetrations from runes and it fills my build perfectly. 7 ability power per level runes is against weak enemy witch cant harass you a lot. Most of the time I use 7 magic resist glyphs.
Same as in solo q nothing changes. Just depends on your playstyle.









Quick


Most of the time you will max
Bouncing Blade first then sinister steel shumpo and ult when you can. Maxing
Bouncing Blade you will give you good harass to the lane opponent and you won’t have to go to close range but there is situations that you want to max sinister steel first over
Bouncing Blade. First of all sinister steel is good against melee champions like
Fizz or
Gragas because actually you can deal more damage with it than your
Bouncing Blade because it has only 4 second cool down. The other time when you max sinister steel is when you laning against tank hard pusher like
Galio you know you can’t kill
Galio and harassing him with your
Bouncing Blade won’t make anything because of his shield you just better let him push under your turret. Last hit some creeps with your
Bouncing Blade and when minions come to your turret you just kill them all with your sinister steel.
Quick Max
Bouncing Blade if you know you can harass your opponent frequently. If you can't harass your opponent with
Bouncing Blade you should consider maxing sinister steel and when opponent lands skills on minions harass him with sinister steel.










Quick Max


Solo q
you want to pop it in lvl 3 so this way you still have it in lvl 6. Rare champ can sustain
Katarina pre 6 poke with blue pot
is just to get more damage.
Is most ability power you can get in mid game and that what you looking for in solo q
to get more burst in mid-late game, if you are fed. If not get
to get survivability in team fights and then
.
After that if enemy team got lots of magic resist get
(just to penetrate their magic resist) if not just get
(you can jump in back line with
Katarina and don’t worry that you gonna die,
with and then
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5v5 Competitive play
First item
will give you lots sustain in lane and you won't be afraid of auto attack harass that much.
When you back first time there is 2 choices. First is to get
and 2 wards with pots this is good if you know that you can kill your lane oponenent if he don’t have lots of hp. And other way is to get
1st if you laning lets say
Veigar you know you can’t kill him and he can one shot you so you need more sustain in lane. You will get
to have some magic resist, sustain again, so ability power carries doesn't one shot you. But the other big thing that you want from it is the magic penetration it gives so your spells will do a lot of damage.
Katarina has weak early game, one of the weakest actually compared to other ability power mid champs. The magic penetration will help you in early game and early mid game
give you 20magic pen, boots give you another 20, abyssal give you another 20 in aura, your runes give you another 10, so basically if enemy mid player has 70magic resist its equal to 0 for you because you just have to much magic pen and most of the ad carries and ability power carries have more than 70 magic resist only after like 25-30 mins. of the game.
will give you some sustain I started to like it more than
because you can use it when you want because it's active not passive and in season 3 riot will nerf
.
After that get
nothing fancy here all ability power mages get it because of its passive and how much ability power it actually gives to you.
After that you should get
. Lot of people say it’s bad after the nerf but they forget that they buffed its scaling and now after 100ap you get it give 5% not 4% so in late game when you have 600ap you can say that they nerfed it only by 4%. Next
because people will start building some magic resist and it give some nice ap.
If enemy got double ability power comp skip the
and get
. And if you´re laning against a champion which you can't kill 1v1 (watch in Laning againts certain champion chapter) skip the
to and just rush
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Always keep 2 wards in your inventory!! (unless you don't have any space or money ofc)
Quick boots of speed,
,
,
,
,
,
, sell
get
.







After that if enemy team got lots of magic resist get





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5v5 Competitive play
First item

When you back first time there is 2 choices. First is to get









After that get

After that you should get


If enemy got double ability power comp skip the




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Always keep 2 wards in your inventory!! (unless you don't have any space or money ofc)
Quick boots of speed,








First off all is the
Hextech Gunblade lot of people like to have it. But after the
Katarina remake she doesn’t benefit from ad at all because they even nerfed they ad ratio and got some ap ratio up so it’s not cost effective item anymore because
Bilgewater Cutlass just don’t give stats that you need. Some people would say but it has active slow which even deal some damage. That slow is nice but why you should get item witch cost near like
Rabadon's Deathcap just for slow? You could get way better items for slow than
Hextech Gunblade.
Why I don’t get
Rylai's Crystal Scepter.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter just isn’t cost effective item right now after
Katarina remake her ult lands faster so even without slow with simple shumpo ult she can land 90% of her ult down. So basically you pay for slow which you don’t need. And
Abyssal Mask just give you everything you need so why you should get
Rylai's Crystal Scepter when you can get
Abyssal Mask?
Why I don't get
Hextech Revolver. Well it’s because of weak
Katarina early game. If you do some match it’s not cost effective. It's better to just get
Blasting Wand and like 5 health potion it will give you more ability power more sustain in lane and it will even cost less for you. You may ask why it is that way. Spell vamp give you hp back based on how much damage you did and
Katarina has really bad base damage on her skills, so you deal low damage and get even lower hp back. That’s why it’s not worth rushing it. :) And in late game you won't need it because you will have lots of survivability from
Guardian Angel and
Abyssal Mask so you won't need that spell vamp and buying it because of ability power is just not cost effective there is better items to get for ability power than
Hextech Revolver.
P.S write in comment section about some other items you like getting in case I forgot something :)





Why I don’t get






Why I don't get







P.S write in comment section about some other items you like getting in case I forgot something :)
As I said
Katarina has the weakest base damage from all ability power mid champions that means that you can’t kill other ap mid champions unless you outplay them hard. So basically because of that you are force to play pasive in lane and just farm. There is nothing you can do (almost against all champions) before level 6 with
Katarina you just have to deal with it. Try last hitting with your
Bouncing Blade and sinister steel (you will find hard last hiting with sinister steel because it deals less damage than even auto attack!!. Try not to take lots of harass from enemy mid laner, don’t go to close just to get 1 cs. After lvl 6
Katarina starts to shine there is some lanes that you can just harass with ult because it has really short cool down. It’s temmo]
Karthus
Ryze these champion don’t have anything to interrupt your ultimate and after lvl 6
Katarina full combo deal more damage than theirs do basically you just throw your
Bouncing Blade shumpo sinister steel ult and that is you back of and after that he is force to go back or after your
Shunpo comes off could own you can just flash
Shunpo
Bouncing Blade sinister steel
Ignite and he is dead 100% (most of the time depending on situation) If you kill your enemy in lane once don’t let him come back to the game try zoning him out (not letting him to get cs) harassing him when you can. And if you die in lane don’t start to freak out most of the time if you died against your lane opponent with
Katarina it’s over for you won’t take him 1v1 don’t even try just focus on farming over farm her take your jungler wraiths do everything just to get farm but play passive don’t dye again wait for you jungler to gang see if you can kill her. Let’s say she has 1/0/0 and 100 farm and you have 0/1/0 and 130 farm (she is losing in farm because she tried to harass you didn’t took wraiths etc.) your situation is even better than her about 20 cs = to 1 kill so you can say you are ahead of her kills isn’t everything in this game. just chill after you die :) Other thing I forgot to say is never ever use
Shunpo in lane unless you know you can deal more damage. Than your opponent to you and you know where enemy jungler is because in laning phase your
Shunpo will be level 1 and level 1
Shunpo has 14 second cool down so basically if enemy jungler come you are screwed because you don’t have your escape spell.
Quick
Katarina is weak in lane try not to be aggressive until level 6. Focus more on farm, don’t push the lane and create jungler the an opportunity to gang your lane.
















Quick

In team fights your role is to take out ad or ability power carry. NEVER go first as
Katarina because enemy team will just eat you alive before you can make anything and don’t go first second your team initiate ( or enemy team) because they will just cc your ult better just wait few second until they use all of their cc until their ad or ability power carry will lose there positioning and than just burst it down (that the best
Katarina can do)
Quick don't go in first, wait for enemy team to blow their cc.


Quick don't go in first, wait for enemy team to blow their cc.



If you go out of your lane you need to get a kill if you get a kill its good if you get assist it’s okay but if you go from your lane and don’t gain anything you just missing the farm. Lets say you went from mid to top and been there for 20s doing nothing. That’s like 1/3 of level and like 10cs. Let’s say you done that 3 time when you come back in mid lane other enemy carry has 1 level advantage over you and 30minion kills 30minions kills don’t sound that much but when you think about the gold it’s like blasting wand that’s huge thing you are really behind your opponent.
Quick

Katarina is really strong in farming after her remake. She can just
Bouncing Blade sinister steel and 5 minions are dead (there is 6 in 1 wave). She can easily kill wraiths camp because she has lots of AoE damage with her skills. After
Katarina remake, riot buffed
Bouncing Blade range so I would call it long range spell now and her sinister steel isn’t that bad to. You may find little bit hard to last hit with
Katarina skills in first levels because of her low base damage, but with time you will get used to it. :)
Quick Try farming at least until you get
Haunting Guise. Farming is core in League of legends.




Quick Try farming at least until you get


Quick Best champ to carry to high elo.














































































Sory that it is not great, it's my first video ever :D
My second video I hope it's better :) (topbannana) is my brother acc in west. I play that acc when I have penalty for leaving solo q in Nordic or when I want to play with my class mates. You can add that acc to friend list because 70% of the time I’m online into that acc not my brother :D
My second video I hope it's better :) (topbannana) is my brother acc in west. I play that acc when I have penalty for leaving solo q in Nordic or when I want to play with my class mates. You can add that acc to friend list because 70% of the time I’m online into that acc not my brother :D
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