Mid · 313 games · EUW

Katarina

Mid · 74% of games Bot · 21%

Strongest when games end at 30–35 minutes (58%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+91 gold).

Win rate: 55.0%; ±5.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: S; #3 of 72
Pick rate: 4.8%; ban 19.3%
Games: 313; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

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Katarina mid wins 55.0% of 313 ranked games in EUW, rank 3 of 72 mid champions (tier S). Most players finish Kraken Slayer first, at about 10:24.

The build at a glance

What most Katarina players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Kraken Slayer 10:23 · 48% · 145 games

Item 2

Blade of The Ruined King 17:24 · 52% · 66 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 13:06 · 47% of games

Item 3

Terminus 22:38 · 100% · 43 games

Item 4 · late game

Zhonya's Hourglass 30:36 · 16 of 77 games

Item 5 · late game

Void Staff 35:30 · 4 of 19 games

Runes

Conqueror · Precision + Resolve 15% of games · 60% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 49% of games · 55% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 92% of games · 55% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Bouncing Blade first 75% of games · 53% wins Skill orders →

When Katarina wins

Best when games end at 30–35′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′51% wins38% of games · 120

Lasts 25′ or more58% wins61% of games · 190

Lanes

Watch out for Yone, Twisted Fate, LeBlanc

Hard Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Katarina games

First Baron: 81% against 35%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 35% 81% +46

First tower 35% 75% +39

Rift Herald 41% 77% +36

First dragon 40% 68% +29

First blood 47% 62% +14

First Voidgrubs 51% 59% +8

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Katarina plays

More multikills, fewer control wards

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More multikills a game1.81 against 0.79 · +129%

Fewer control wards a game0.28 against 0.64 · −56%

More solo kills a game2.6 against 1.9 · +37%

Fewer assists a game5.2 against 6.2 · −16%

About average: damage, gold, time spent dead, deaths.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~10:42

Item 2done ~18:24

Item 3done ~23:24

Item 4done ~28:18

Item 5done ~34:42

Most common full builds

Kraken Slayer › Blade of The Ruined King › Terminus › Plated Steelcaps 63.3%30 games

Kraken Slayer › Terminus › Plated Steelcaps › Death's Dance 84.0%25 games

Lich Bane › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 54.5%22 games

Lich Bane › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 55.0%20 games

Kraken Slayer › Mercury's Treads › Terminus › Death's Dance › Experimental Hexplate 77.8%9 games

Lich Bane › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap › Zhonya's Hourglass 44.4%9 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Death's Dance 86%14

Experimental Hexplate 83%6

Terminus 74%38

Nashor's Tooth 71%7

Blade of The Ruined King 65%26

Shadowflame 51%45

Rabadon's Deathcap 48%25

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Blade + Health Potion55.3%152

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion46.3%54

Dark Seal + Refillable Potion54.2%48

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:0653.7%147

Mercury's Treads ~14:3666.7%51

Plated Steelcaps ~18:0669.0%42

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite55.4%289

Flash + Teleport55.6%9

Exhaust + Ignite50.0%6

Skills

Max

W53.0%234

Max

W61.5%78

Start

W53.4%296

Start

W82.4%17

Hard lanes

Watch out for Yone, Twisted Fate, LeBlanc

Easy lanes

Good into Viktor, Galio, Sylas

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 6 of 11, wins 3 of them

Expected: what Katarina's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (24)

Zoe 44% · 9

Ryze 88% · 8

Yasuo 75% · 8

Vladimir 63% · 8

Zed 75% · 8

Lissandra 57% · 7

Vex 83% · 6

Orianna 17% · 6

Anivia 67% · 6

Kassadin 33% · 6

Garen 60% · 5

Cassiopeia 80% · 5

Swain 50% · 4

Irelia 50% · 4

Hwei 25% · 4

Azir 50% · 4

Aurora 50% · 4

Akshan 67% · 3

Riven 67% · 3

Gwen 67% · 3

Diana 67% · 3

Fizz 0% · 3

Tristana 67% · 3

Lucian 100% · 3

Katarina vs Ahri · 21 games · Fair sample

Katarina does worse than expected here

48%winsexpected 54%

+258gold at 15′average +91

−5.1minions at 10′ahead or behind

14%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.86 a game

Gold lead against Ahri Katarina's average lead

Against Ahri, Katarina is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 48% of games and wins 70% of those. When behind, Katarina wins 27%.

Ahead at 15′70% wins10 games

Behind at 15′27% wins11 games

Full Katarina vs Ahri page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Katarina games: Graves, Kai'Sa, Thresh

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Yone60% · exp. 55% +520 games

Enemy jungle Trouble

Graves44% · exp. 60% −1518 games

Easier

Kha'Zix61% · exp. 54% +718 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Kai'Sa50% · exp. 59% −924 games

Jinx47% · exp. 54% −715 games

Aphelios52% · exp. 58% −621 games

Easier

Jhin72% · exp. 55% +1725 games

Caitlyn63% · exp. 55% +819 games

Enemy support Trouble

Thresh40% · exp. 53% −1320 games

Easier

Lulu64% · exp. 53% +1125 games

Nami67% · exp. 54% +1215 games

Karma72% · exp. 62% +1018 games

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Katarina dies 2.3 times a game (average 2.3). 51% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 48% for the average mid laner. 31% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.3deaths per game before 14′about average (2.3)

51%involve the enemy junglermore than average (48%)

69%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (67%)

59%with no teammate nearabout average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Katarina dies before 14 minutes

Ganked in their half of mid, collapsed on in your half of mid

Ganks: 22% in their half of mid. Collapses: 32% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 44% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Katarina

Kind of death

Katarina Average

Gank 51% (avg 48%)Collapse 18% (avg 19%)1-v-1 31% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Katarina Average

Bot laner 10% (avg 7%)Jungler 28% (avg 27%)Support 7% (avg 7%)Mid laner 51% (avg 54%)Top laner 5% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Katarina Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Katarina; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Katarina wins fights

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 4.1 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.5 in your half of mid. Overall 1.6 kills per death.

Their half of mid 1.8 K/D 336 / 189

Your half of mid 0.5 K/D 102 / 214

Their half of bot lane 4.1 K/D 161 / 39

The bot-side river 1.7 K/D 117 / 70

Their jungle 2.1 K/D 109 / 51

Your jungle 1.5 K/D 86 / 57

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Katarina wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 25% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 69% when Katarina is there and 77% when not.

Katarina

What most Katarina players run

Best when games end at 30–35′

Watch out for Yone, Twisted Fate, LeBlanc

First Baron: 81% against 35%

More multikills, fewer control wards

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Yone, Twisted Fate, LeBlanc

Good into Viktor, Galio, Sylas

Ahead at 15 against 6 of 11, wins 3 of them

Katarina does worse than expected here

Katarina does worse than expected here

Katarina does better than expected here

Katarina does worse than expected here

Katarina does worse than expected here

Katarina does better than expected here

Katarina does worse than expected here

About what you would expect

Katarina does worse than expected here

Katarina does better than expected here

Katarina does better than expected here

Enemies that cost Katarina games: Graves, Kai'Sa, Thresh

Teammates that change Katarina's games

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganked in their half of mid, collapsed on in your half of mid

What kills Katarina

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid