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Choose Champion Build:
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Kitty Katarina Mid Lane
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Alternative Tanky Setup
Recommended Items
Spells:
Ignite
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Voracity (PASSIVE)
Katarina Passive Ability
Pros / Cons
Pros
Very mobile Tons of resets Good escape Easy to snowball with |
Cons
Somewhat squishy Risky |
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Katarina
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Runes
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Marks
Magic Penetration marks are necessary as Katarina benefits the most from the penetration opposed to any other rune.
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Seals
Armor seals are necessary to mitigate early auto-attack poke especially vs ranged champions in lane as well as providing some resistance to AD carries' and bruisers' damage later on when teamfights start.
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Glyphs
A mix of Flat Magic Resist Glyphs and Glyphs of Scaling Magic Resist works great because you will be able to stand taking more magic damage in lane and could save your life in all in situations. Having some Scaling Magic Resist allows you to resist more damage in the mid and late game against magic damage champions.
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Katarina wants to scale up and blow people up with overwhelming amounts of damage, so Glyphs of Scaling Ability Power can work very well if the enemy team does not have too many magic damage threats.
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Quintessences
Ability power Quintessences add some raw damage to your abilities which can help to trade and last hit early game.
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Movement speed quints are also great if you know you will be roaming around the map.
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21-9-0 gives you the necessities to being able to assassinate other champions. You can play a tankier role however and run 9-21-0, which can be better in certain instances, and is also very effective. You will generally not want to go into the utility tree as Katarina does not benefit from mana regen and buff duration is not important as Katarina will not be picking up many buffs as they do not help her as much as it does others.
21-9-0 gives you the necessities to being able to assassinate other champions. You can play a tankier role however and run 9-21-0, which can be better in certain instances, and is also very effective. You will generally not want to go into the utility tree as Katarina does not benefit from mana regen and buff duration is not important as Katarina will not be picking up many buffs as they do not help her as much as it does others.
Starting Items
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Katarina is weak early levels, so if you know you are going to get harassed very hard in lane, use the 5
Health Potion start, however you do not need all 3 sight wards at the beginning, but you will eventually use them. I recommend getting at least 1 or 2 sight ward to start. Alternatively you can start
Boots and
Health Potions if you are against someone with skillshots, as the boots will allow you to dodge more effectively.
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Early/Mid Game Items
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It is very effective to build magic penetration on Katarina.
Sorcerer's Shoes give you the move speed and the magic penetration that Katarina benefits a lot from. Unless you are against a very bursty lane opponent like
LeBlanc or
Veigar, you should be getting
Sorcerer's Shoes over
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Situational Items
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Core Items
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I like to build a
Zhonya's Hourglass fairly early as it builds from the
Seeker's Armguard provides a good amount of ability power, and not only that, but it's 2.5 second invulnerability active is extremely useful. It is great in team-fights when you are in a bad position, as you can divert focus from the rest of your team.
Katarina has great AP scaling. Along with cooldown resets, allows for you to put out an incredible amount of damage in a short amount of time.
Rabadon's Deathcap makes sense for that reason, and can be bought after a few core items if you have a good front line. If you do buy it early on opposed to a
Zhonya's Hourglass, you are left fairly vulnerable if you ever get caught out.
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Defensive Items
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Offensive Items
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sinister steel
Sinister Steel
Sinister Steel is very weak early on. Until you scale up, you can max it out in time for team fights, you mostly last hit with auto attacks and your bouncing blades early on.
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Shunpo
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Death Lotus
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Flash
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Ignite
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Teleport
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Heal
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Past level 6 you can roam to secure kills for other lanes. With Katarina, try to wait for your lane opponent to waste a spell or miss an ability, and capitalize on the mistake by pulling off a full combo. For example, if a
Lux misses a
Light Binding, you can immediately combo her and bring her very low, at least pushing her out of lane, if not granting you a kill. When a jungler ganks, if you are able to kite enough, you can turn around a fight especially if they dive under the turret pre-level 6.
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Katarina's #1 counter is cc. Watch for your enemies to use their cc on other teammates before joining a figth. Make sure to engage later in a team fight to avoid being focused and do tonnes of damage. If you see a multi-person stun/knockup go off, like a
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Katarina is fairly easy to farm with once you have a few levels in sinister steel, it only has a 4 second cooldown. You can also farm from a distance with
Bouncing Blades. Farming wraiths and wolves is a good idea whenever your lane is pushed.
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Positioning and timing in team fights are crucial. A well-timed engagement with a fully channeled
Death Lotus will prove successful. As
Katarina's passive
Voracity gives cooldown reduction, focusing down squishy targets first and making sure they die will give you a large advantage in winning team fights, as it allows you to instantly try to focus down the next enemy. Also,
Katarina is tons of fun! :D
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