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Katarina champion portrait

Katarina Build

Jungle Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 156 gamesUpdated

32.4%win rate0.0%pick6.3%ban

Who counters Katarina

No Jungle opponent has faced Katarina enough times this patch to call the matchup either way yet.

How to build Katarina

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

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

33.3% win rate 26% of games 27 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de GraceDominationRelentless HunterSudden Impact42% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite90%
Skills
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Bouncing Blade
14578
Preparation
314151718
Shunpo
29101213
Death Lotus
61116
StartMosstomper SeedlingMosstomper Seedling
Full Katarina build →
32.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 36.9% over 350 gamesPatch 26.21: 32.4% over 156 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
0.0%pick rate
6.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
45.1%under 22 min
32.6%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.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Katarina champion portraitJ KatarinavsCho'Gath champion portraitJ Cho'Gath
13 / 11 / 14

Build

Mosstomper SeedlingGluttonous Greaves|Kraken Slayer→Guinsoo's Rageblade→Stridebreaker→Experimental Hexplate

Spells & runes

ExhaustSmite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Katarina champion portraitJ KatarinavsDiana champion portraitJ Diana
15 / 7 / 8

Build

Mosstomper SeedlingSorcerer's Shoes|Lich Bane→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap→Void Staff

Spells & runes

ExhaustSmite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRW
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Katarina champion portraitJ KatarinavsJarvan IV champion portraitJ Jarvan IV
2 / 3 / 1

Build

Mosstomper SeedlingGluttonous Greaves|Kraken Slayer

Spells & runes

CleanseSmite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQ

Runes

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

Most popular 45.2% win rate · 42% of games · 42 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationRelentless HunterSudden Impact
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 33.3% win rate · 15% of games · 15 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosRelentless Hunter
PrecisionCoup de GraceTriumph
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashSmiteFlash + Smite90%32.4%145 games
  • ExhaustSmiteExhaust + Smite6%55.6%9 games

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

Boots
Gluttonous Greaves37%Sorcerer's Shoes21%Plated Steelcaps15%
Gluttonous Greaves most often · 36.2% win rate
Jungle pet
Mosstomper Seedling90%
9 of 10 recent games started Mosstomper Seedling

Katarina build

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

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Katarina Jungle is at 159 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Katarina →
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.

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.

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

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