Katarina vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Katarina
based on 1,893 Katarina vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Katarina vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here feature some influential Katarina against Jayce matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jayce’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jayce..
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Jayce. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Jayce
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Who is Better, Katarina or Jayce?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when taking on Jayce, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a good counter for Jayce.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate than Jayce, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Jayceas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Jayce matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Jayce. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina to counter Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Jayce. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina versus Jayce build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Jayce than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Jayce with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Jayce as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Katarina vs Jayce counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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