Katarina vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Katarina
based on 6,725 Katarina vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Morgana Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Morgana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Morgana
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 Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Katarina vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Katarina vs. Morgana matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Morgana. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Morgana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Morgana
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Who is Better, Katarina or Morgana?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Morgana, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a bad counter to Morgana.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Morgana, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Morganaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Morgana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Katarina is a garbage counter for Morgana. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Morgana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Morgana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically racks up more CS as Morgana. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina versus Morgana build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Morgana than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Morgana with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Morgana as Katarina, you should equip 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 Morgana face-offs, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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