Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some influential Katarina against Aatrox matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between these two champs. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aatrox’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Aatrox. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Aatrox. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Aatrox, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes an ok counter for Aatrox.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Aatrox, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Aatroxas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Aatrox. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Aatrox.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Aatrox. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina versus Aatrox build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Aatrox than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 49.9% battling Aatrox with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Aatrox as Katarina, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina vs Aatrox face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Aatrox as Katarina are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.