Katarina vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Katarina
based on 3,178 Katarina vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Katarina vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Katarina against Soraka matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Soraka. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives more damage than Soraka. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Soraka
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Who is Better, Katarina or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when facing off against Soraka, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter to Soraka.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Soraka, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Sorakaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Soraka. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Soraka 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 tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average gets much more CS as Soraka. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Katarina versus Soraka build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Soraka than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 49.4% when playing against Soraka with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Soraka as Katarina, you 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 sets we have analyed for Katarina vs Soraka matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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