Tristana vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Tristana
based on 4,571 Tristana vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Katarina
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some vital Tristana versus Katarina counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Katarina..
Tristana usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Katarina. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Katarina
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Who is Better, Tristana or Katarina?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tristana usually wins when taking on Katarina, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a good counter for Katarina.
While Tristana does have a higher winrate than Katarina, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Katarina.
Moreover, Tristana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Katarina matchups, Tristana 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.
Tristana is a decent counter for Katarina. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to counter Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Katarina. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Tristana versus Katarina build consist of Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Katarina as Tristana, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Tristana vs Katarina battles, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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