Trundle vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Trundle
based on 8,058 Trundle vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Trundle vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Trundle vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Trundle
Tips for Playing as Trundle against Katarina
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
Trundle vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Trundle in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several significant Trundle versus Katarina counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Katarina..
Trundle often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Katarina. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Trundle and Katarina
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Who is Better, Trundle or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually wins when playing against Katarina, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Trundle makes a great counter to Katarina.
While Trundle does have a higher win rate compared to Katarina, when facing one another, Trundle also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Trundle into Katarina.
Furthermore, Trundle 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Katarina matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Trundle is a great counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Trundle against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Trundle to counter Katarina during both the lane 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 tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Katarina. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Trundle versus Katarina build consist of Trinity Force, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Katarina than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 53.2% battling Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Katarina as Trundle, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Trundle vs Katarina counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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