Katarina vs Vladimir
How to Beat Vladimir as Katarina
based on 4,213 Katarina vs Vladimir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Vladimir Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vladimir as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Vladimir
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 Vladimir
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
Katarina vs Vladimir Counter Stats
How to Counter Vladimir with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several valuable Katarina against Vladimir counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Vladimir..
Katarina normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Vladimir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Vladimir
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Who is Better, Katarina or Vladimir?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Vladimir, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a poor counter to Vladimir.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Vladimir, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Katarina into Vladimiras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vladimir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Vladimir matchups, Vladimir is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a garbage counter to Vladimir. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Vladimir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Vladimir 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Vladimir. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Vladimir build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Vladimir than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing against Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Vladimir as Katarina, you 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 runes that we analyzed for Katarina vs Vladimir matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
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