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.
The stats provided here clarify several important Katarina vs. Lillia matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lillia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lillia. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Lillia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Lillia, with a 46.2% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter to Lillia.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Lillia, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Lilliaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lillia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Lillia matchups, Lillia is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a garbage counter to Lillia. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Lillia.
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to counter Lillia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average gets much more CS relative to Lillia. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Katarina versus Lillia build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Lillia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 46.2% when countering Lillia with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Lillia as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Katarina vs Lillia matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
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