Katarina vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Katarina
based on 4,571 Katarina vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Katarina vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here show several influential Katarina against Tristana counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tristana..
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Tristana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Tristana
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Who is Better, Katarina or Tristana?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Tristana, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a bad counter for Tristana.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Tristana, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Tristanaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Tristana matchups, Tristana 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 late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Tristana. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Tristana. Champions who on average don't take 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 properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Tristana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Tristana than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing against Tristana with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Tristana 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. Of all the rune builds players picked for Katarina vs Tristana battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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