Hi, my name is william but you can call me Dankplank or Lobban.
Im playing on eune server and im currently at 105k mastery points on katarina, im gold 2 at the moment but im climbing every day.
I actully made a zed guide a couple of months ago. Some might know it, my old guide currently has 235k views even though i made it very sloppy.

I play katarina aggressive and i roam alot. My reason for playing katarina is to apply map pressure and making good scenarios for my team. I tend to head on down to bot lane at 6 after pushing a wave in. There i try to kill enemy bot lane asap so my bot lane can focus more on farm and objectives. But if bot already is doing that without any issues i would probebly head towards top at level 6. If none of the following lanes need ganks i just stay mid and apply pressure to the enemy mid laner so the towers drop quickly.

You can check the top of my guide to examine and copy my runes and build.
Those work for me. If you are getting cheesed in lane go for a more tanky build but runes stay the same in any scenario.

At late game you should play semi passive, kat's weekest point is at late. Unless you have a perfect opportunity never jump into teamfights. Wait for you're team to engage, NEVER go in solo. Then you might throw the game single handedly :p

Katarina's standard combo used to be instantly pressing E+W+Q. But now since kata's e cooldown got increased you have to do the combo slower. For example, E+W instantly. Wait for w dagger to proc then throw out your Q and then wait half a sec for it to land then jump to it.

In teamfights: Poke them with some q's, wait for your team to enage. When your team engages you have to be ready to throw out a q and try to controll where it is suppose to land. Instantly jump on your dagger and time it exactly so when you land on you're dagger you press W then R. Doing that will do TONS of damage, insane amounts of damage.

Keep in mind that you can use flash on your daggers in case that your E is on cooldown.

Katarna has one of the highest mobilities in the game. She can constantly dish out tons of damage and she is great at helping her team.
She is not really hard to play but to really master her requires good mechanics.

In my opinion she is one of the funniest champions to play in league of legends. I enjoy every second while playing her.

Pros: - Super high mobility, good roams
- Can solo carry an entire game
- Very good in teamfights
- Good help all around the map
- Strongest mid-game champion in the game
- Tank katarina works at top if needed


Cons: - Pretty weak early game
- Hard to fully master her because of the game sense and mechanics needed
- Super high ban rate ;)

Farming with kata can be quite tricky, really early stages of the game you should play passive and try to farm with Q if you dont want to go for a early kill in that case you should poke enemy mid laner as much as you can.

Anyways, its okey to take some damage if you get farm in laning phase. You have a animation cancel on you're E. Use aa+e+aa on cannon to secure it.

Q Bouncing Blade: Katarina throws a Dagger to the target enemy that bounces to up to 2 nearby unaffected enemies, dealing magic damage to each target. After bouncing to its targets, the Dagger then lands on the ground 350 units opposite from where it struck the first target. The Dagger always takes the same amount of time to land from the time it hits the first target.

W Preparation: Katarina tosses a Dagger into the air at her current location, which lands after 1.25 seconds, and gains bonus movement speed that decays over 1.25 seconds.


E Shunpo: Katarina blinks to the target location around the target unit or Dagger. If used on a dagger your cooldown on E is reduced.


R Death Lotus: Katarina rapidly spins in place and channels for 2.5 seconds, throwing a dagger at every each nearby enemy champion, up to a maximum of 3 at a time, dealing them magic damage and applying Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.

Mostly you should max you E ability. But in some scenarios you should max Q. For example vs melee's like zed or yasuo. Those targets are better to poke down and you can do that simply with Q.

I really hope you enjoyed this. This took a long while to make. Hours of pre research about the champion. The mix that with my knowlege about katarina. If you made it this far i would really appritiate it if you upvoted my guide and maybe some feedback in the comment section.
Thank you so much and if you have any questions dont be afraid to ask any question.
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Once agian thank you so much for reading my, william sax's guide. Thanks and good luck in soloQ