Katarina vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Katarina
based on 4,650 Katarina vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Darius
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 Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Katarina vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some valuable Katarina versus Darius matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Darius..
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Darius. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Darius
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Who is Better, Katarina or Darius?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Darius, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a poor counter for Darius.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Darius, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Dariusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Darius matchups, Darius is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Darius. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Darius. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Katarina versus Darius build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Darius than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when countering Darius with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Darius as Katarina, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Katarina vs Darius counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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