Katarina vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Katarina
based on 3,859 Katarina vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Katarina vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some significant Katarina versus Kayle counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between this set of champions. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kayle. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Kayle
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Who is Better, Katarina or Kayle?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Kayle, with a 46.4% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a bad counter for Kayle.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate than Kayle, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Katarina into Kayleas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Katarina is a garbage counter for Kayle. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Kayle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Kayle. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Katarina versus Kayle build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Kayle than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 46.4% when playing against Kayle with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Kayle as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Katarina vs Kayle counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
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