Katarina vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Katarina
based on 1,384 Katarina vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Katarina vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Katarina versus Taliyah matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes more damage than Taliyah. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Katarina or Taliyah?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually wins when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a good counter for Taliyah.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate compared to Taliyah, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Katarina into Taliyahas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Taliyah matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Katarina is an above average counter to Taliyah. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Taliyah. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Katarina versus Taliyah build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Taliyah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 52.2% when countering Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Taliyah as Katarina, Katarina players should take 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 runes that we analyzed for Katarina vs Taliyah counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
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