Kai'Sa vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Kai'Sa
based on 5,613 Kai'Sa vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Katarina
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Kai'Sa vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several important Kai'Sa vs. Katarina matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Katarina..
Kai'Sa normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Katarina. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Katarina
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Katarina?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Katarina, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter for Katarina.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Katarina, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Katarina.
Additionally, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a terribly counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Katarina. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Katarina build consist of Terminus, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Kai'Sa used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing against Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Katarina as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Katarina counters, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
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