Katarina vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Katarina
based on 1,853 Katarina vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Katarina vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some significant Katarina against Sivir counter stats that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sivir. 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. Typically, she receives more damage than Sivir. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Sivir
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Who is Better, Katarina or Sivir?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when trying to fight Sivir, with a 52.8% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a good counter for Sivir.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate compared to Sivir, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Katarina into Siviras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Sivir matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Katarina is a good counter for Sivir. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Sivir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Sivir. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Katarina versus Sivir build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Sivir than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 52.8% battling Sivir with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Sivir as Katarina, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina vs Sivir LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
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