Katarina vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Katarina
based on 6,578 Katarina vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Katarina vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here feature several strategic Katarina versus Master Yi counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Master Yi..
Katarina normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Master Yi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Katarina or Master Yi?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Master Yi, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a poor counter to Master Yi.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate than Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Master Yias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually picks up much more CS as Master Yi. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Katarina versus Master Yi build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Master Yi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Master Yi with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Master Yi 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 combinations players picked for Katarina vs Master Yi clashes, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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