Taliyah vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Taliyah
based on 1,384 Taliyah vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Katarina
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Taliyah in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some influential Taliyah versus Katarina counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, showing that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Katarina..
Taliyah typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Katarina. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Katarina
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Katarina?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when facing off against Katarina, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes a bad counter for Katarina.
While Taliyah does have a lower winrate than Katarina, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Taliyah into Katarina.
Furthermore, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Taliyah is a bad counter for Katarina. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to counter Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Katarina. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts 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 values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Taliyah versus Katarina build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Katarina as Taliyah, Taliyah players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Taliyah vs Katarina counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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