Katarina vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Katarina
based on 1,984 Katarina vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Nilah
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.
Katarina vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several critical Katarina versus Nilah matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nilah..
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Nilah
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Who is Better, Katarina or Nilah?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Nilah, with a 45.7% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a poor counter for Nilah.
While Katarina does have a much lower winrate than Nilah, when facing one another, Katarina also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Katarina into Nilahas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This 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 Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a garbage counter for Nilah. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Nilah. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Nilah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Nilah than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 45.7% when playing against Nilah with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Nilah 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. Out of all the runes players used for Katarina vs Nilah counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
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