Katarina vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Katarina
based on 1,930 Katarina vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Katarina vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some important Katarina vs. Lissandra counter stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lissandra. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Lissandra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Katarina or Lissandra?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Lissandra, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a bad counter for Lissandra.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate than Lissandra, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Lissandraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra 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 Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Lissandra 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 suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Lissandra. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Katarina versus Lissandra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Lissandra than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.4% battling Lissandra with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Lissandra as Katarina, Katarina players 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 builds players picked for Katarina vs Lissandra face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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