Attacking a
Vulnerable
target marked by Valor will put Harrier on cooldown. Quickly consuming Harrier marks will allow you to generate them faster.
Use Behind Enemy Lines for traveling very long distances quickly, for farming minions around the map, or for chasing wounded targets.
Vault is powerful but must be used with caution, as enemies can attack Quinn when she strikes them. Vault can sometimes be used to cross terrain if your back is to a wall.
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 show some significant Quinn vs. Katarina counter stats that may help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Quinn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Quinn may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Katarina..
Quinn typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Katarina. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Quinn usually fairs equally well when facing off against Katarina, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Quinn makes an ok counter to Katarina.
While Quinn does have a higher winrate compared to Katarina, when facing one another, Quinn also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Quinn into Katarina.
Furthermore, Quinn has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Quinn vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Quinn is a decent counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Quinn against Katarina.
To learn all of the intricacies of Quinn to counter Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Quinn on average gets a similar amount of CS as Katarina. Champions who on average 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Quinn versus Katarina build include Stormrazor, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Quinn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Katarina than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Quinn had an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Katarina with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Katarina as Quinn, Quinn players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Quinn vs Katarina battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Katarina as Quinn are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.