Katarina vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Katarina
based on 4,905 Katarina vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Katarina vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Katarina against Blitzcrank counter statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Blitzcrank’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Blitzcrank. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Blitzcrank. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Katarina or Blitzcrank?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Blitzcrank, with a 46.6% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a bad counter to Blitzcrank.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Blitzcrank, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Blitzcrankas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Katarina is a bad counter for Blitzcrank. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually accumulates much more CS relative to Blitzcrank. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Katarina versus Blitzcrank build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Blitzcrank than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 46.6% battling Blitzcrank with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Blitzcrank as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Katarina vs Blitzcrank counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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