Katarina vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Katarina
based on 5,158 Katarina vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Katarina vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some strategic Katarina vs. Malphite counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between these two champions. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malphite’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Malphite. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Malphite. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Malphite
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Who is Better, Katarina or Malphite?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Malphite, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter to Malphite.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Malphite, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Malphiteas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Malphite. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically gets a similar amount of CS as Malphite. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Malphite build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Malphite than with many other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when countering Malphite with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Malphite as Katarina, you 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 builds players picked for Katarina vs Malphite fights, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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