Ahri vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Ahri
based on 3,859 Ahri vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Katarina
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Ahri in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Ahri versus Katarina counter statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Katarina..
Ahri normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Katarina. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Katarina
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Who is Better, Ahri or Katarina?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Katarina, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a poor counter for Katarina.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Katarina, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ahri into Katarina.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ahri is a terribly counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri to counter Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather 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.
Ahri typically gets a similar amount of CS as Katarina. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Ahri versus Katarina build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Katarina than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when countering Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Katarina as Ahri, Ahri players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Ahri vs Katarina counters, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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