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Katarina Build

Bot Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 5,635 gamesUpdated

52.3%win rate0.2%pick6.3%ban

Who counters Katarina

How to build Katarina

Gluttonous Greaves→Kraken Slayer→Blade of The Ruined King→Terminus

Gluttonous Greaves → Kraken Slayer → Blade of The Ruined King → Terminus

48.0% win rate 16% of games 683 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de GraceDominationRelentless HunterSudden Impact30% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite60%
Skills
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Bouncing Blade
14578
Preparation
314151718
Shunpo
29101213
Death Lotus
61116
StartDoran's BowHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Katarina build →

Best supports for Katarina

Who Katarina has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst supports for Katarina

Who Katarina has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

52.3%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.5% over 14,150 gamesPatch 26.21: 52.3% over 5,635 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.9%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
6.3%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 4 last patch
56.5%under 22 min
52.8%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Katarina champion portraitB Katarina+Rell champion portraitS RellvsVarus champion portraitB Varus+Pyke champion portraitS Pyke
14 / 6 / 8

Build

Gluttonous Greaves|Stridebreaker→Kraken Slayer→Terminus→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRW
Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Katarina champion portraitB Katarina+Thresh champion portraitS ThreshvsJinx champion portraitB Jinx+Braum champion portraitS Braum
10 / 7 / 14

Build

Mercury's Treads|Stridebreaker→Kraken Slayer→Wit's End→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEEREWWWRW
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Katarina champion portraitB Katarina+Soraka champion portraitS SorakavsYunara champion portraitB Yunara+Nami champion portraitS Nami
12 / 7 / 4

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Kraken Slayer→Terminus→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 53.0% win rate · 30% of games · 1,553 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationRelentless HunterSudden Impact
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 53.6% win rate · 8% of games · 440 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
InspirationCash BackBiscuit Delivery
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite60%52.9%3,449 games
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier20%54.1%1,153 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Gluttonous Greaves47%Plated Steelcaps21%Mercury's Treads14%
Gluttonous Greaves most often · 55.8% win rate

Katarina build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Kraken Slayer1st
  2. Blade of The Ruined King2nd
  3. Terminus3rd
14% of games that reach a third item take this path56.9% win rate599 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Katarina →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 5,691 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
47% · 55.8% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
20% · 51.8% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
14% · 55.0% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
8% · 45.2% win rate
BootsBoots
8% · 40.8% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 40.6% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Kraken Slayer›Blade of The Ruined King›Terminus+Gluttonous Greaves3% of games · 48.7% win rate · 189 games
  2. Kraken Slayer›Blade of The Ruined King+Gluttonous Greaves3% of games · 42.7% win rate · 164 games
  3. Kraken Slayer›Terminus+Gluttonous Greaves2% of games · 41.5% win rate · 142 games
  4. Kraken Slayer+Gluttonous Greaves2% of games · 44.4% win rate · 117 games
  5. Kraken Slayer›Terminus›Death's Dance+Gluttonous Greaves2% of games · 56.4% win rate · 110 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Katarina against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Katarina's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number. The best and worst supports are ranked the same way, against Katarina's average instead of 50%.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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