Soraka vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Soraka
based on 3,178 Soraka vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Katarina
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Soraka in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some strategic Soraka versus Katarina matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Katarina. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Soraka normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Katarina. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Soraka and Katarina
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Who is Better, Soraka or Katarina?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Soraka usually fairs equally well when taking on Katarina, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Soraka makes an ok counter for Katarina.
While Soraka does have a higher winrate compared to Katarina, when facing one another, Soraka also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Soraka into Katarina.
Furthermore, Soraka also has a very large 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Katarina matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Soraka is a decent counter for Katarina. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Soraka against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Soraka to counter Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka typically gets a lot less CS as Katarina. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Soraka versus Katarina build consist of Redemption, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Soraka incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Katarina than with many other common builds. In fact, Soraka had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing against Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Katarina as Soraka, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Soraka vs Katarina face-offs, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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