Tips for playing against Katarina?

Mal the Red··1 votes·5,340 views

I'm tired of seeing her use Shunpo 4 times in the average trade, avoiding literally everything I throw at her, kill me, then Shunpo out.

I know her passive resets her cooldowns when she gets a kill... But she was literally using Shunpo every second to close in on me.

What are her weaknesses? I am genuinely curious...

4 Comments

Elohaven1 votes

Her shunpo resets when she picks up a dagger and you want to avoid locations where her daggers land. Her dagger lands the opposite side of the first target hit and she can also shunpo to a close location, champion, or dagger. If it's not a dagger she'll be picking up, her shunpo gets placed on CD. That's an engage opporutnity of about 8 seconds.

Her weakness is CC. She will feed against anyone who plays Ryze(if you last the 10-15 minutes of farming you need. Just an RoA on Ryze and a Tear will destroy her).

Don't let her roam to bot for kills. Punish her for trying to farm. Poke her out.

Engage on her when you have SS or she can outplay you quite easily.

She falls off really hard late game(30-40 minutes if you farmed at least 250-300 CS).

Poske1 votes

Ryze is not that good against katarina

Best counterpicks lulu blitz malza

But then again ryze is op atm

Mal the Red1 votes

That makes a bit more sense how she was able to use it so often. But I have a hard time believing that giving her TWO ways to reset the cooldown on that problem skill is balanced. Makes it so much harder to CC her unless you're... well Ryze...

And yeah, once the team fights started up late game, she was starting to falter. It was still a frustrating endeavor.

Thanks for your input.

Poske1 votes

Anticipate, Predict bait, Exhaust , CC after ulti, Engage on her before she engages, Spam danger if she is Mia

Remember once she jumps in early game she cant jump for around 1.5 seconds you can try to hit her then

avoid daggers

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