Katarina vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Katarina
based on 2,853 Katarina vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Katarina vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Katarina vs. Gwen counter statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gwen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Gwen. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Gwen. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Gwen
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Who is Better, Katarina or Gwen?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually wins when facing off against Gwen, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a good counter to Gwen.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate compared to Gwen, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Gwenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Gwen matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Katarina is a decent counter for Gwen. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to counter Gwen 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 suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average gets a similar amount of CS as Gwen. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Gwen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Gwen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when countering Gwen with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Gwen as Katarina, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Katarina vs Gwen counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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