Katarina vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Katarina
based on 13,441 Katarina vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Katarina vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Katarina vs. Lux matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lux’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Lux. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes more damage than Lux. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Lux
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Who is Better, Katarina or Lux?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when playing against Lux, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes an ok counter to Lux.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate compared to Lux, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Luxas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Lux matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Lux. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually picks up more CS compared to Lux. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina versus Lux build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Lux than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Lux with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Lux as Katarina, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Katarina vs Lux face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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