Ezreal vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Ezreal
based on 8,009 Ezreal vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ezreal vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Ezreal vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Ezreal against Katarina
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Ezreal in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several strategic Ezreal versus Katarina counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. As an example, Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Katarina..
Ezreal typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Katarina. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ezreal and Katarina
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Who is Better, Ezreal or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ezreal usually loses when playing against Katarina, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Ezreal makes a bad counter to Katarina.
While Ezreal does have a lower win rate compared to Katarina, when they face off with one another, Ezreal also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ezreal into Katarinaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ezreal also has almost no 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ezreal 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 late stage team fights.
Ezreal is a somewhat poor counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ezreal against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ezreal 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Katarina. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Ezreal versus Katarina build include Guardian Angel, Muramana, and Trinity Force. When Ezreal combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ezreal had an average win rate of 48.5% battling Katarina with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Katarina as Ezreal, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Ezreal vs Katarina matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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