Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
The stats shown on this page highlight some critical Lillia against Katarina counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Lillia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, showing that Lillia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Katarina..
Lillia normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Katarina. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lillia usually wins when facing off against Katarina, with a 53.8% win rate. Thus, Lillia makes a great counter for Katarina.
While Lillia does have a higher win rate than Katarina, when facing one another, Lillia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Lillia into Katarinaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Lillia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lillia vs Katarina matchups, Lillia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lillia is a great counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lillia against Katarina.
If you would like to truly master Lillia in order to counter Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lillia on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Katarina. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Lillia versus Katarina build include Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Lillia combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lillia boasted an average win rate of 53.8% when playing against Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Katarina as Lillia, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Lillia vs Katarina counters, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.8% winrate overall.
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