Warwick vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Warwick
based on 5,688 Warwick vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Katarina
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Warwick in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several important Warwick against Katarina counter stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Katarina..
Warwick typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Katarina. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Warwick and Katarina
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Who is Better, Warwick or Katarina?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually wins when taking on Katarina, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Warwick makes a good counter to Katarina.
While Warwick does have a higher winrate compared to Katarina, when they face off with one another, Warwick also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Warwick into Katarina.
Furthermore, Warwick also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Warwick vs Katarina matchups, Warwick 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 teamfights.
Warwick is an above average counter to Katarina. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Warwick against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Warwick 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick often racks up less CS relative to Katarina. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Warwick versus Katarina build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Katarina than with many other common item sets. In fact, Warwick boasted an average winrate of 52.4% when countering Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Katarina as Warwick, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Warwick vs Katarina counters, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.4% win rate overall.
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