Katarina vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Katarina
based on 2,334 Katarina vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Shen
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 Shen
Be ready to dodge Shen's taunt and punish him if he misses.
Once Shen reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, which can turn fights quickly.
Katarina vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several significant Katarina vs. Shen counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Shen. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Shen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Shen
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Who is Better, Katarina or Shen?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Shen, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter for Shen.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Shen, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Shenas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Shen matchups, Shen is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Shen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Shen. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina versus Shen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Shen than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when playing against Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Shen as Katarina, you should take 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 runes players picked for Katarina vs Shen battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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