Katarina vs Senna
How to Beat Senna as Katarina
based on 10,260 Katarina vs Senna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Senna Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Senna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Senna as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Senna
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.
Katarina vs Senna Counter Stats
How to Counter Senna with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some influential Katarina vs. Senna counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Senna’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Senna. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes more damage than Senna. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Senna
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Who is Better, Katarina or Senna?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Senna, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a poor counter to Senna.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Senna, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Sennaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Senna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Senna matchups, Senna 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 somewhat poor counter for Senna. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Senna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Senna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind 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 gets more CS as Senna. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Katarina versus Senna build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Senna than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 48.5% battling Senna with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Senna as Katarina, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Katarina vs Senna counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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