Katarina vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Katarina
based on 2,118 Katarina vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Poppy
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 Poppy
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
Katarina vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several valuable Katarina vs. Poppy counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Poppy. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Poppy. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Poppy
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Who is Better, Katarina or Poppy?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Poppy, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter to Poppy.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Poppy, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Poppyas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Poppy. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina to counter Poppy 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually racks up more CS as Poppy. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Katarina versus Poppy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Poppy than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Poppy with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Poppy 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 players chose for Katarina vs Poppy matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Poppy as Katarina are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.