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How to Win Katarina vs Leona Counter MatchupKatarina is in the a tier of champions

Katarina vs Leona

How to Beat Leona as Katarina in LoLKatarina is in the s tier of champions
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How to Beat Leona as Katarina

based on 4,679 Katarina vs Leona matchups
Win Rate
45.4 %
K/D/A
2.22
Pick Rate
3.5 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We produce our counter statistics from the millions of recently rated LoL games that we get from Riot Games each week. Our guide on how to beat Leona as Katarina came out of an analysis of 4679 ranked matches where both champions clashed against one another. This particular pairing is somewhat rare. Katarina is forced to battle against Leona in only 3.5% of her games.

Katarina vs Leona Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Katarina has done a terrible job of countering Leona. On average, she wins a lowly 45.4% of the time the champs fight each other in. In Katarina against Leona rounds, Katarina’s side is 0.1% less probable to get first blood. This indicates that she most likely won't get first blood against Leona.

Best Katarina vs Leona Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Dark SealRefillable Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Aether WispHextech Alternator

Core Katarina Items

~22 Mins
Lich BaneZhonya's HourglassStormsurge

Optional Items

Rabadon's DeathcapRiftmakerLiandry's TormentVoid Staff

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Katarina to level upq
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Second ability for Katarina to level upe
>
Last skill for Katarina to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
DominationSudden ImpactRelentless Hunter
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Katarina's passive ability p
Katarina's q ability q
Katarina's w ability w
Katarina's e ability e
Katarina's ultimate ability r
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Q
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E
3
W
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Q
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Q
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R
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Q
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Guide to Countering Leona as Katarina

Tips for Playing as Katarina against Leona

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 Leona

When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.

Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.

Katarina vs Leona Counter Stats

Katarina Image
Win Rate
45.4 %
VS
Win Rate
54.6 %
Leona Image
9.1
< Kills >
2.2
6.9
< Deaths >
6.1
6.2
< Assists >
13.9
2.03
< Killing Sprees >
0.39
155
< Minions Killed >
32
0.06
< Dragons Killed >
0.04
0.34
< Inhibitors >
0.48
2,202
< Physical Damage >
2,861
20,305
< Magic Damage >
6,652
1,028
< True Damage >
963
23,536
< Damage Dealt >
10,477
24,823
< Damage Taken >
22,631
12,106
< Gold Earned >
8,590
1.46
< Towers >
1.62
0.01
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
3,330
< Total Healing >
2,623
13,975
< Experience >
10,574
16
< Vision Score >
56
8
< Wards Placed >
24
37
< Time Dealing CC >
221

How to Counter Leona with Katarina in LoL

The stats provided here highlight some valuable Katarina versus Leona counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.

Katarina often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.

Differences between Katarina and Leona

Damage Types Compared

Katarina
Leona
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Katarina
Leona

Who is Better, Katarina or Leona?

Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 45.4% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter for Leona.

While Katarina does have a much lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Leonaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.

Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.

Katarina is a bad counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Leona.

Additional Information for Katarina Players

How We Calculated Our Katarina vs Leona Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Leona as Katarina, we analyzed 4,679 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Leona as Katarina comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Leona 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 shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Katarina on average gets much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.

The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina versus Leona build consist of Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 45.4% when playing against Leona with these items in her kit.

To have the best likelihood of defeating Leona 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina vs Leona matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.4% win rate overall.

By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Leona as Katarina are presented for all skill levels, merged. To filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.