Katarina vs Volibear
How to Beat Volibear as Katarina
based on 2,803 Katarina vs Volibear matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Volibear Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Volibear as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Volibear
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.
Katarina vs Volibear Counter Stats
How to Counter Volibear with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some valuable Katarina against Volibear counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Volibear’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Volibear. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Volibear. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Volibear
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Who is Better, Katarina or Volibear?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when facing off against Volibear, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes an ok counter to Volibear.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Volibear, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Volibearas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Volibear. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Volibear matchups, Volibear is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Volibear. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Volibear.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to counter Volibear during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average gets a similar amount of CS as Volibear. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Katarina versus Volibear build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Volibear than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when countering Volibear with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Volibear 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. Of all the runes players used for Katarina vs Volibear counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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