Katarina vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Katarina
based on 2,119 Katarina vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Katarina vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some vital Katarina against Kassadin matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kassadin..
Katarina often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Kassadin. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Katarina or Kassadin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Kassadin, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a bad counter to Kassadin.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Kassadin, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Katarina into Kassadinas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a trash counter to Kassadin. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Kassadin during both the laning 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 mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Kassadin. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Katarina versus Kassadin build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Kassadin than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 47.1% battling Kassadin with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Kassadin as Katarina, Katarina players should equip 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 sets players chose for Katarina vs Kassadin counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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