Katarina vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Katarina
based on 1,353 Katarina vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Katarina vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some strategic Katarina against Cassiopeia counter stats that can help us realize the differences between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Cassiopeia..
Katarina normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Cassiopeia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Katarina or Cassiopeia?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Cassiopeia, with a 46.2% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a poor counter to Cassiopeia.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Cassiopeia, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Katarina into Cassiopeiaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a trash counter for Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Cassiopeia. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina versus Cassiopeia build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Cassiopeia than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 46.2% battling Cassiopeia with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Cassiopeia as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina vs Cassiopeia battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% win rate overall.
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