Heimerdinger vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Heimerdinger
based on 1,914 Heimerdinger vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Katarina
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several vital Heimerdinger against Katarina matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Katarina..
Heimerdinger usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Katarina. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Katarina
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when trying to fight Katarina, with a 53.0% win rate. Therefore, Heimerdinger makes a good counter to Katarina.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher winrate than Katarina, when on opposite teams, Heimerdinger also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Heimerdinger into Katarinaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Heimerdinger has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Katarina matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Heimerdinger is a good counter to Katarina. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order 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 listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Katarina. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger versus Katarina build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Katarina than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 53.0% battling Katarina with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Katarina as Heimerdinger, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Heimerdinger vs Katarina battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.0% win rate overall.
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