Katarina·Mid Build
Win rate | 49.6% |
Pick rate | 5.2% |
Ban rate | 6.4% |
Matches | 63 141- |
Katarina Build
Most Popular
Win Rate 54.4% based on 16 294 matches
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54.4%Highest WR
54.7%Alternative
51.3%Off-Meta
50.4%Top Players ALL
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54.3%Sylas
53.5%runes
spells
D
F
items
Starter Items
Time Target@ 16 sec
Early Items
@ 4 min
Core Items
@ 20 min
Full Build
ability order
Q
E
W
Skills
situational items
Katarina Matchups Overview
Katarina General information
Katarina tips and tricks
In team fights, try to engage and use your Ultimate R once the enemies CC abilities are down so they cannot interrupt your combo.
When looking to fight the enemy laner, try and wait for them to use an ability before going in. This will make the trade more favourable and the enemy will not be able to deal tons of damage back to you.
If you’re not able to kill the enemy laners, try and roam! Katarina is a very good roaming champion and can easily pick up kills in the side lane.
Katarina combos
Every combo you need to master the champion!
The Best Katarina Builds, Runes and Items for Mid in Emerald +
Most Popular
If you want to use the most popular Katarina Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Electrocute as your keystone, followed by Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection and Relentless Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Coup de Grace and Triumph in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Lich Bane as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Shadowflame. For your last 3 items, you should build Zhonya's Hourglass, Rabadon's Deathcap and finish with Void Staff. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 54.4% winrate over 16 294 matches played.
Alternative
If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, and Relentless Hunter with Sudden Impact in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Blade of The Ruined King as your first item, then Mercury's Treads as a second item and Kraken Slayer as a third item. You want to finish the build with Terminus, Jak'Sho, The Protean and Titanic Hydra. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 51.3% win rate across 3 856 matches played.
Off-Meta
If you want to try an Off-Meta Katarina Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace as your primary rune tree, and Relentless Hunter with Sudden Impact as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Nashor's Tooth as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Shadowflame as third item. The last 3 options are Zhonya's Hourglass, Rabadon's Deathcap and Void Staff. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 50.4% win rate over 3 248 matches played.
Situational Katarina Runes and Items
Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Katarina build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.
Furthermore, if you want a more detailed breakdown, you should also check out Katarina runes page.
Probuilds
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In-depth Build Stats
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Katarina Counters - Best and Worst Matchups for Mid in Emerald +
Best Matchups
In Patch 14.21 the best possible matchups for Katarina Mid are:
- vs. Vel'Koz - 56.3% win rate over 355 games.
- vs. Smolder - 56.2% win rate over 1 161 games.
- vs. Azir - 54.7% win rate over 547 games.
- vs. Aurelion Sol - 54.3% win rate over 766 games.
- vs. Yone - 53.9% win rate over 3 321 games.
Consider picking Katarina into these matches to increase your chance to win a game. These are the most popular Mid matchups that currently are in favor of Katarina.
Worst Matchups
We highly recommend avoiding picking Katarina in the current patch into the following Mid matchups:
- vs. Garen - 42.3% win rate over 279 games.
- vs. Cassiopeia - 45.0% win rate over 525 games.
- vs. Vladimir - 45.0% win rate over 1 154 games.
- vs. Ryze - 45.8% win rate over 803 games.
- vs. Diana - 46.0% win rate over 1 205 games.
These champions are considered as Katarina counters in the current patch, and playing such a matchup will decrease your chances of winning a game.
Additional Notes
If you want to find out more about best and worst matchups, as well as specific matchup statistics, we highly encourage you to check our Katarina counters page. Keep in mind that while the champion may counter or be countered, it also comes down to your individual skill, the skill of your opponent, your team, and enemy team compositions.