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Katarina champion portrait

Katarina Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 982 gamesUpdated

48.4%win rate0.0%pick6.3%ban

Who counters Katarina

How to build Katarina

Sorcerer's Shoes→Kraken Slayer→Blade of The Ruined King→Terminus

Sorcerer's Shoes → Kraken Slayer → Blade of The Ruined King → Terminus

52.6% win rate 20% of games 114 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de GraceDominationRelentless HunterSudden Impact33% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite82%
Skills
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Bouncing Blade
14578
Preparation
314151718
Shunpo
29101213
Death Lotus
61116
StartDark SealRefillable PotionDark Seal, Refillable Potion
Full Katarina build →
48.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.9% over 2,453 gamesPatch 26.21: 48.4% over 982 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
48.5%at Emerald+
0.0%pick rate
6.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
49.1%under 22 min
50.6%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 portraitT KatarinavsKayle champion portraitT Kayle
23 / 8 / 4

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Lich Bane→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Katarina champion portraitT KatarinavsJax champion portraitT Jax
9 / 6 / 4

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Lich Bane→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Katarina champion portraitT KatarinavsGalio champion portraitT Galio
6 / 5 / 4

Build

Mercury's Treads|Kraken Slayer→Blade of The Ruined King

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEW

Runes

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

Most popular 46.6% win rate · 33% of games · 249 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationRelentless HunterSudden Impact
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 44.1% win rate · 19% of games · 143 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
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite82%48.2%817 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport6%32.8%58 games

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

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes27%Plated Steelcaps24%Gluttonous Greaves21%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 47.3% 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
11% of games that reach a third item take this path61.3% win rate62 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Katarina →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 984 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
27% · 47.3% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
24% · 49.4% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
21% · 56.1% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
17% · 50.3% win rate
BootsBoots
6% · 33.3% win rate
No bootsNo boots
3% · 43.3% win rate
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.

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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