Katarina vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Katarina
based on 2,399 Katarina vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Annie
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Katarina vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some valuable Katarina vs. Annie matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between the two. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Annie’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Annie. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Annie. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Annie
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Who is Better, Katarina or Annie?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when taking on Annie, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes an ok counter to Annie.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate than Annie, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Annieas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Annie matchups, Annie is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Annie. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Annie. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina versus Annie build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Annie than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 49.7% when countering Annie with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Annie as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Katarina vs Annie matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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