Katarina vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Katarina
based on 13,293 Katarina vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Caitlyn
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.
Advice to Win Against Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Katarina vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several vital Katarina versus Caitlyn counter stats that may help you realize the differences between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Caitlyn’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Caitlyn. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Caitlyn. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Katarina or Caitlyn?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when playing against Caitlyn, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter for Caitlyn.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate compared to Caitlyn, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Caitlynas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Caitlyn matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Caitlyn. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Caitlyn. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina versus Caitlyn build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Caitlyn than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 50.3% when playing against Caitlyn with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Caitlyn as Katarina, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Katarina vs Caitlyn counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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