Katarina vs Rek'Sai
How to Beat Rek'Sai as Katarina
based on 698 Katarina vs Rek'Sai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Rek'Sai Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rek'Sai as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai
When Rek'Sai is near, she can see the position of you and your allies, but only if you're moving.
If you see one of Rek'Sai's tunnels, briefly stand on one of the entrances to destroy it.
Rek'Sai's Furious Bite gains damage as she builds Fury. Be very careful around her when her Fury is full.
Katarina vs Rek'Sai Counter Stats
How to Counter Rek'Sai with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several valuable Katarina vs. Rek'Sai counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rek'Sai..
Katarina normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Rek'Sai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Rek'Sai
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Who is Better, Katarina or Rek'Sai?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when taking on Rek'Sai, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter to Rek'Sai.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate than Rek'Sai, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Rek'Saias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Rek'Sai matchups, Rek'Sai is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Katarina is a decent counter for Rek'Sai. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Rek'Sai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average accumulates much more CS as Rek'Sai. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Katarina versus Rek'Sai build include Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Rek'Sai than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Rek'Sai with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Rek'Sai as Katarina, Katarina players should use 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 combinations that we analyzed for Katarina vs Rek'Sai counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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