Katarina vs Corki
How to Beat Corki as Katarina
based on 279 Katarina vs Corki matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Corki Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Corki Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Corki as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Corki
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Advice to Win Against Corki
Watch out for Corki's Missile Barrage. They deal splash damage, so you can get hit even when hiding behind minions.
Corki is vulnerable after he uses his Valkyrie or Special Delivery, so try switching focus to him if he uses them to enter a fight.
Katarina vs Corki Counter Stats
How to Counter Corki with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here feature some significant Katarina vs. Corki matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Corki’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Corki. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Corki. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Corki
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Who is Better, Katarina or Corki?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually wins when facing off against Corki, with a 55.2% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a fantastic counter to Corki.
While Katarina does have a much higher win rate than Corki, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Katarina into Corkias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Corki. 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Corki matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Katarina is a great counter to Corki. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Corki.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina to counter Corki during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Corki. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina versus Corki build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Corki than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 55.2% battling Corki with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Corki as Katarina, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Katarina vs Corki matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.2% win rate overall.
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