Katarina vs Vayne
How to Beat Vayne as Katarina
based on 7,118 Katarina vs Vayne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Vayne Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vayne as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Vayne
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 Vayne
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Katarina vs Vayne Counter Stats
How to Counter Vayne with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Katarina against Vayne counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vayne’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Vayne..
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives more damage than Vayne. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Vayne
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Who is Better, Katarina or Vayne?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Vayne, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter to Vayne.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Vayne, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Katarina into Vayneas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vayne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Vayne matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a bad counter for Vayne. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Vayne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically gets a similar amount of CS as Vayne. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Katarina versus Vayne build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Vayne than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing against Vayne with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Vayne as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Katarina vs Vayne matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
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