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.
After using the more powerful, Awakened version of an ability, Udyr cannot Awaken other abilities for some time.
Udyr has limited ranged options, try to keep distance.
The stats shown here emphasize several valuable Katarina against Udyr counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between these two champs. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Udyr’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Udyr. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Udyr. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Udyr, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a bad counter for Udyr.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Udyr, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Udyras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Udyr. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Udyr matchups, Udyr is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Udyr. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Udyr.
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Udyr during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically racks up more CS as Udyr. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Udyr build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Udyr than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when countering Udyr with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Udyr as Katarina, Katarina players 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 rune builds that we analyzed for Katarina vs Udyr fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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