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Choose Champion Build:
Spells:
Ghost
Ignite
Ability Order
Voracity (PASSIVE)
Katarina Passive Ability
Introduction
This will be my very first guide on Mobafire, and I wanted to do the guide on my favourite and most played champion,



I have 3 builds for
Katarina
[*] Tanky:
One of them is Tanky Build where I go 9/21/0 in the mastery tree. The Defense tree got buffed so hardcore. If you are going to face someone in your lane that you are %100 sure that you can't win, get this Mastery page and get armor yellows, if he is attack damage based champion.
[*] Damage vs Armor:
21/9/0 Where you get
Hardiness
+
Durability
+
Veteran's Scars
. I use this when I'm going solo top and when I have an attack damage based champion facing me, such as
Talon,
Irelia,
Gangplank. You can also get greater seal of resiliance if you really think you will have a hard time laning.
[*] Damage vs Magic Resist:
21/9/0 Where you get
Resistance
+
Durability
+
Veteran's Scars
. I use this mastery build when I'm going mid or I'm going solo top against
Gragas,
Yorick,
Swain,
Akali,
Rumble. In this situation, you should be getting greater seal of vitality.
Item build is the same for all three of these builds. I will talk about this item build

[*] Tanky:
One of them is Tanky Build where I go 9/21/0 in the mastery tree. The Defense tree got buffed so hardcore. If you are going to face someone in your lane that you are %100 sure that you can't win, get this Mastery page and get armor yellows, if he is attack damage based champion.
[*] Damage vs Armor:
21/9/0 Where you get






[*] Damage vs Magic Resist:
21/9/0 Where you get








Item build is the same for all three of these builds. I will talk about this item build
Pro’s:
• She doesn’t use mana.
• Highest damage output in the game. (Her ulti does 1040 + X AOE damage at level 16)
• Awesome chaser.
• One of the best mid game champions.
• Built in ignite.
• Highest damage output in the game. (Her ulti does 1040 + X AOE damage at level 16)
• Awesome chaser.
• One of the best mid game champions.
• Built in ignite.
Con’s:
• Vulnerable to crowd control abilities.
• Easy to learn, hard to master.
• You will get flamed for picking her and you will take the blame if you lose even if you have a good K/D/A.
• Very hard early game without ganks or kills.
• Easy to learn, hard to master.
• You will get flamed for picking her and you will take the blame if you lose even if you have a good K/D/A.
• Very hard early game without ganks or kills.
Katarina is an assassinating goddess.
Voracity is what makes
Katarina the assassinating goddess she is. My build is set around this passive. Your job as
Katarina is to get lots and lots of kills. Your passive resets the cooldowns of your three non-ultimate abilities and decreases the cooldown on
Death Lotus by 15 seconds, each time you get a kill or an assist. Also it gives you + gold for each kill or assist, but the cooldown reduction part is what's important. Because your passive reduces your cooldowns, you don’t need cooldown runes, cooldown shoes or cooldown masteries. That means I shouldn’t see
Ionian Boots of Lucidity, or cooldown runes.










• Your bread and butter.
• After each kill your cooldowns reset for your normal abilities.
• After three kills, your ults cooldown resets.
• To abuse this ulti get lots of ability power and attack damage, so you can kill more people in a team fight.

Katarina throws a dagger that hits up to 2/3/4/5/6 enemies, dealing 60/95/130/165/200 (+ ) (+0.35) magic damage. Each subsequent hit deals 10% less damage.
• Your harassment skill.
• Scales both from Attack Damage and Ability Power so we are building hybrid.
• If you cannot auto attack minions, last hit with this.

Passive: Katarina's abilities and melee attacks deal 8/12/16/20/24 additional damage each hit.
Active: Katarina's next basic ability has a bonus effect.
Bouncing Blade: Deals full damage to every target it hits and applies 50% healing reduction for 5 seconds.
Shunpo: Katarina takes 15/20/25/30/35% reduced damage from enemy attacks for 3 seconds.
• If you see



Katarina moves to her target's location. If the target is an enemy, she deals 80/120/160/200/240 (+0.75) magic damage to the target.
• Your surviving tool.
• Harass in lane without turning

• When in team fights use


Katarina goes into a state of extreme focus, throwing 10 daggers over 3 seconds at the closest 3 enemy champions. Each dagger deals 50/65/80 (+ ) (+0.25) magic damage.
• Does 1040 + X Damage if fully channeled at level 16.
• Hits three different champions, 10 daggers each, adding up to 30 daggers in total.
• You can use this ultimate more than once in a teamfight, this will help you wreck up kills.
Starting Item:
Boots +
Health Potion x3 or Doran’s Shield if you know you are going to face a really hard Attack Damage carry, such as
Talon,
Caitlyn. In these matchups you will need the extra armor and hp regeneration to survive during the laning phase. Other than that you should be getting Boots x 3 Health Pots. This gives you mobility in lane, faster ganks and makes you avoid ganks because of your high movement speed combined with [Greater Quintessence of Swiftness].
Mid Game Goals:
/
or
Hextech Gunblade provides you everything you need as
Katarina. An active slow, attack damage, ability power and most importantly lane sustain. If you ever get low in your lane, just use
Bouncing Blade once or twice and get back to full health.
Late Game Goals:
For damage:
or
For survivability:
or
For the clean up:
or
Rabadon's Deathcap will give you super duper omega damage output combined with
Void Staff. Banshee’s veil will help you survive that
Event Horizon and continue casting your ultimate. If you have guardian’s angel, and die, and your team mates kill someone while you are reviving your passive will proc and you will be able to cast all of your skills after you revive, which makes Guardian’s Angel extremely good on
Katarina.
Buy Red Elixir whenever you have money, it scales very very well with
Katarina.
Situational Items:
[*]
Get this if the opposing team has lots of crowd control abilities that can be removed by
Quicksilver Sash for example
Nether Grasp or
Infinite Duress. Keep in mind that knock ups or knock backs cannot be stopped using
Quicksilver Sash such as
Rupture or
Pulverize.




Mid Game Goals:






Late Game Goals:
For damage:


For survivability:


For the clean up:






Buy Red Elixir whenever you have money, it scales very very well with

Situational Items:
[*]







MUST:


You need one of these in order to survive early, mid and late game. After the nerf flash is less usefull which means


P.S: Don’t forget that Katarina is really squishy.
The Second Options:











I have two mastery builds for
Katarina:
First one is 21/9/0 (Scarra’s Way):
Damage Mastery Tree is overpowered at the moment. Taking improved spell pen. ignite, + 3 attack damage, %5 ability power increase in the offence and taking armor/magic resistance according to my lane matchup and
Durability
+
Veteran's Scars
makes
Katarina really really good.
The second one is 9/21/0 (Westrice’s Way)
This is a more tanky mastery setup and the Defence Mastery Tree is really buffed. I use it when my lane matchup is a good harasser, such as
Talon or
Gragas
YOU SHOULD NEVER GET ANYTHING FROM THE UTILITY TREE. You don’t need cooldown because of your passive, you don’t need reduced death time, mana regen. Only thing you need from the utility tree is the improved flash if you are using flash as your primary summoner spell. In that case, you can put one point in utility.

First one is 21/9/0 (Scarra’s Way):
Damage Mastery Tree is overpowered at the moment. Taking improved spell pen. ignite, + 3 attack damage, %5 ability power increase in the offence and taking armor/magic resistance according to my lane matchup and



The second one is 9/21/0 (Westrice’s Way)
This is a more tanky mastery setup and the Defence Mastery Tree is really buffed. I use it when my lane matchup is a good harasser, such as


YOU SHOULD NEVER GET ANYTHING FROM THE UTILITY TREE. You don’t need cooldown because of your passive, you don’t need reduced death time, mana regen. Only thing you need from the utility tree is the improved flash if you are using flash as your primary summoner spell. In that case, you can put one point in utility.






Greater Seal of Vitality: Late game Health is what you need on Katarina. This shall make you less squishy.





Honorable Mentions:
Greater Quintessence of Vigor


Katarina is completely viable in ranked games, if only the enemy doesn’t have 10 crowd control abilities. Just you should master Katarina in Normal Draft before going into the Ranked Area. The reason behind playing Normal Draft Mode is because you can see what the enemies pick. For example you wouldn’t pick Katarina against a team with Udyr + Riven. Katarina is also viable in tournament play, the only pro gamer manly enough to play Katarina is tournaments is Scarra. Watch his games as a proof of how viable Katarina is.
Link to Scarra owning Team Solomid with his beast Katarina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdKzT2YXs5E
Another player who uses
Katarina is 1900 + elo is TiensiNoAkuma.
Him carrying with Kat in Ranked 1900 + elo
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0J6E5o9Ccw&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqlEDmtP0M8&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u62Zdihu4M8&feature=channel_video_title
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNgrozyUZAI
Westrice using
Katarina:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A38Cc4e9Dhs&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqWJ1jYfTI
Link to Scarra owning Team Solomid with his beast Katarina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdKzT2YXs5E
Another player who uses

Him carrying with Kat in Ranked 1900 + elo
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0J6E5o9Ccw&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqlEDmtP0M8&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u62Zdihu4M8&feature=channel_video_title
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNgrozyUZAI
Westrice using

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A38Cc4e9Dhs&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqWJ1jYfTI


Good Lane Match-ups:
•

•


•


Bad Lane Match-ups:
•
: You can't do anything against him. He will just force you out of lane, harrass you to death. My only advice would be to hug the tower and let him push. Than tell your jungler to gank.
•
: He pushes too hard and you can't
Shunpo to him because of his
H-28G Evolution Turret. His
Hextech Micro-Rockets is really annoying too.
•
: She has two channel interrupts, you can't ulti him. If you can't ulti someone, you can't kill them. If you can't kill them, you lose your lane. If you lose your lane you eventually lose the game.
•
: His ult completely counters your ult. Don't go near him.
New Champion Time:
•
:
Fizz is an extremely versatile champion. He can be played as a bruiser or a mage. Mage
Fizz is easy to handle as
Katarina. You should farm for the first 5 levels. After getting to level 5 and upgrading your
Bouncing Blade to 3 level you can use it to harrass. If he tries to auto attack you
Shunpo to a minion. After you get to level 6, try killing him with
Death Lotus. If you get pushed, just ask your jungler to gank.

•




•

•

New Champion Time:
•







• Always have a ward in your inventory, so that if you find yourself in a bad position, put the ward over a wall and
Shunpo to it.
• Learn to use smartcast if you don’t know already.
Katarina is all about reaction time, and smartcasting will increase that reaction time dramatically.
• You don’t have to have vision of the target to use your ulti. This means it can hit champions behind walls and also hit champions that are stealted.
•
Katarina belongs to a solo lane. Middle lane is always superior upon solotop, but if she is forced to go top, she can handle most heroes. She can, exceptionally well, handle 2v1 situations. Most important part is that she has to be passive in the lane before level 6 because she is pretty weak without her ulti 6 and before she gets the
Hextech Revolver.

• Learn to use smartcast if you don’t know already.

• You don’t have to have vision of the target to use your ulti. This means it can hit champions behind walls and also hit champions that are stealted.
•


Simple. Because it sucks on
Katarina. You need to get kills, not slow enemies. Rylai’s Scepter isn’t cost efficient, and it only provides 80 Ability Power, where as
Hextech Gunblade provides 40 Attack Damage and 70 Ability Power and since
Katarina’s Q and R scale off with both Attack Damage and Ability Power,
Hextech Gunblade is a superior option. Also it provides lane sustain. If you dont believe me lets ask for Scarra's opinion on Rylai’s Crystal Scepter:
Q: Scarra, what do you think about
Rylai's Crystal Scepter on
Katarina
A: “You pay 3000g for 80ap and then wonder why your damage isn't high enough to kill someone.
It wasn't until people I transitioned from rylais into gunblade that i noticed that rylais is a super situational item and should almost never be bought outside of very few champions/situations.
A lot of why people do bad with kat and other champions is because they build inefficiently and then cannot snowball well throughout the game.”




Q: Scarra, what do you think about


A: “You pay 3000g for 80ap and then wonder why your damage isn't high enough to kill someone.
It wasn't until people I transitioned from rylais into gunblade that i noticed that rylais is a super situational item and should almost never be bought outside of very few champions/situations.
A lot of why people do bad with kat and other champions is because they build inefficiently and then cannot snowball well throughout the game.”
I felt the need to make this guide, because I main
Katarina and I couldn’t see any useful and upto date guides on Mobafire. I also wanted to clear some people’s minds about the cooldown reduction runes and Rylai’s Crystal Scepter. Thanks for reading my guide. Please leave your positive or negative criticism. I will be updating this guide every now and then.

PLAY KATARINA AND MAKE SCARRA HAPPY


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