Kayle vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Kayle
based on 3,859 Kayle vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Katarina
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Win Against Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Kayle vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Kayle vs. Katarina matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Katarina..
Kayle usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Katarina. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Katarina
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Who is Better, Kayle or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayle usually wins when playing against Katarina, with a 53.6% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a great counter to Katarina.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate compared to Katarina, when they face off with one another, Kayle also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kayle into Katarinaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Katarina matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kayle is a great counter for Katarina. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayle in order to counter Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle often picks up a similar amount of CS as Katarina. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kayle versus Katarina build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Katarina than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average win rate of 53.6% battling Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Katarina as Kayle, Kayle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kayle vs Katarina fights, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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