Katarina vs Yasuo
How to Beat Yasuo as Katarina
based on 9,290 Katarina vs Yasuo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Yasuo Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yasuo as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Yasuo
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 Yasuo
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
Katarina vs Yasuo Counter Stats
How to Counter Yasuo with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several significant Katarina against Yasuo matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Yasuo..
Katarina often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Yasuo. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Yasuo
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Who is Better, Katarina or Yasuo?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Yasuo, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a poor counter to Yasuo.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Yasuo, when facing one another, Katarina also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Katarina into Yasuoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Katarina is a terribly counter to Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Yasuo.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Yasuo. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Katarina versus Yasuo build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Yasuo than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 46.8% battling Yasuo with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Yasuo as Katarina, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina vs Yasuo face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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