Katarina vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Katarina
based on 5,688 Katarina vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Warwick Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Katarina vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several significant Katarina against Warwick counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Warwick’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Warwick..
Katarina normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Warwick. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Warwick
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Who is Better, Katarina or Warwick?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Warwick, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a bad counter for Warwick.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Warwick, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Katarina into Warwickas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Warwick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Warwick matchups, Warwick is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Katarina is a garbage counter for Warwick. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Warwick.
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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 Warwick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often racks up more CS compared to Warwick. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Warwick build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Warwick than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when countering Warwick with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Warwick as Katarina, Katarina players should take 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for Katarina vs Warwick battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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