Katarina vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Katarina
based on 1,914 Katarina vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Katarina vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Katarina versus Heimerdinger counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Katarina or Heimerdinger?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Heimerdinger, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a bad counter for Heimerdinger.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Heimerdingeras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Katarina is a terribly counter for Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Heimerdinger. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina versus Heimerdinger build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Heimerdinger than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 47.0% when countering Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Heimerdinger as Katarina, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for Katarina vs Heimerdinger fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
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