Morgana vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Morgana
based on 6,725 Morgana vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Katarina
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
Advice to Win Against Katarina
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.
Morgana vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Morgana in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Morgana versus Katarina counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Katarina. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Morgana usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Katarina. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Morgana and Katarina
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Who is Better, Morgana or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Morgana usually wins when playing against Katarina, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Morgana makes a good counter to Katarina.
While Morgana does have a higher winrate compared to Katarina, when facing one another, Morgana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Morgana into Katarina.
Furthermore, Morgana has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Katarina matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Morgana is a decent counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Morgana against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Morgana in order to counter Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana on average picks up less CS as Katarina. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Morgana versus Katarina build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Morgana used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Katarina than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Morgana boasted an average winrate of 52.0% battling Katarina with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Katarina as Morgana, Morgana players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Morgana vs Katarina counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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