Rek'Sai vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Rek'Sai
based on 698 Rek'Sai vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Katarina
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some vital Rek'Sai against Katarina counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Katarina..
Rek'Sai typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Katarina. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Katarina
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Katarina?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually fairs equally well when facing off against Katarina, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Rek'Sai makes an ok counter for Katarina.
While Rek'Sai does have a higher winrate than Katarina, when facing one another, Rek'Sai also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Rek'Sai into Katarina.
Furthermore, Rek'Sai also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rek'Sai is a decent counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rek'Sai against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rek'Sai in order to counter Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai usually racks up a lot less CS as Katarina. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot 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 displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Rek'Sai versus Katarina build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Katarina than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Katarina as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rek'Sai vs Katarina counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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