Is Katarina Is good in 1v1

ViperFangs··1 votes·2,167 views

Hello, I Just Wanted To Play Katarina I Am Playing Her With My Friends Account So My Question Is Is She Good in 1v1 Fights. I Was Playing Against Udyr In Mid Lane And I Was Totally Destroyed So Am I Bad At Her Or She Is Not Good In 1v1 Fights Thanks

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The Sword Saint3 votes

Kat sucks at 1v1 especially early game, but at no point in the game can she ever beat a tanky guy. It's just not how the game works. She's an assassin who preys on low hp squishy targets, not a duelist.

Only Play Darius3 votes

Hell no.

1v1 she can only deal with the squishiest of targets. She has no sustained, true, or %HP damage to deal with tanks or fighters on her own, not to mention anyone with an interrupt will kill her easily.

You said you were fighting Udyr mid. Kat already loses lane in most matchups (which is why she relies on roaming bot and getting a double kill AKA "The Katarina Technique") but fighters will give her an especially difficult time in lane, since they get tanky enough to withstand her burst and deal enough damage to kill her squishy ass if she tries anything smart.

She is meant to find weak targets and go on a reset rampage with her passive, she is one of the few assassins who is actually not that great 1v1 unless she is fighting an ADC.

ViperFangs1 votes

I think then yasuo and ekko are like these too

Only Play Darius1 votes

Yasuo is actually a strong duelist, early game he gets completely shit on by fighters and bruisers in lane (which is why I don't understand why people are taking him top, Garen Darius Riven etc. will destroy him in lane and he can't do anything about it) but late game unlike Kat he can easily 1v1 tanks because all his damage is sustained. Although fighters can give him a hard time later on, if he can land his ult on them then he can cut through them easily. The problem is that by the time he has items to become a 1v1 menace, the enemy team should be teamfighting anyway.

Ekko can't say much about him because his kit is unreliable and he is very hard to play properly, personally I think that his main problem is his ult, which is incredibly overloaded on top of 130% AOE nuke. I wish they would just reduce the absurd scaling on his ult and redistribute it across the rest of his abilities.

ViperFangs1 votes

So Kat is good late game or early game or mid game

Only Play Darius2 votes

Kat's late game damage is absurd, but she has weaknesses. Her waveclear is below average, she sucks at taking objectives like Dragon/Baron, has absolutely no turret siege, can't splitpush, and most importantly she has absolutely no way of initiating a fight. If she has a good initiator on her team, then she can jump into the middle of the enemy team and melt through the squishies before they can react.

I can't legitimately say that Kat is "good" late game. There are some champions that clearly fall off late game, but there are very few champions that are truly GG at six items etc., they usually have extremely pronounced strengths late game but aren't without their weaknesses. There are only several champions I can think of that are just overall unstoppable late game Vladimir Poppy Karthus Jax

Kat Head2 votes

Katarina has always been a weak 1 v 1 champion.

While Dfg existed she had 1 v 1 potential vs carries, since its removal she has zero 1 v 1 potential. Your role as Katarina is to survive lane phase while somehow farming enough gold (farming and roaming bot) to be an effective cleanup bot in team fights. Rarely will you be able to make use of your ultimate (and for good reason, it is devastating), knowing when you can ult / engage in team fights is the most difficult thing to learn about Katarina.

Let me again emphasize there is not single champion in this game that you would look for a duel with as Katarina (unless more than 1 item and level ahead), not saying that she can not win duels under the right conditions (favorable - not even).

ViperFangs1 votes

Well thanks for the info but no can I carry games with her if I master her and go 1v1

FANTAsticOrange2 votes

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Well thanks for the info but no can I carry games with her if I master her and go 1v1

Katarina is one of those champions that becomes useless very quickly without gold or correct builds, like Leblanc. Although she will near always have high damage output, it just isn't enough to carry without excessive amounts of income. I would say, no, unless you have 0 Ping and mad skillz, you can not blankly carry games by locking in Katarina, but practice is always an option, and when you are comfortable enough that you feel as though you can EASILY win lane against an opponent, you will significantly increase your chances of winning.

ViperFangs1 votes

Oh really thanks

Kat Head2 votes

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Well thanks for the info but no can I carry games with her if I master her and go 1v1

That is not how you carry with Katarina, you carry with Katarina by being a massive threat in team fights and skirmishes. You roam bot lane most frequently partly because that lane is constantly dueling / poking, therefore usually your enemies are minus important summoners and spells that they need available to attempt to 1 v 1 you or just to escape from you. Your 1 v 1 win condition is significant advantage in items / levels / summoners / spells, she is an aoe assassin / mage and not a duelist.

Kat is never looking for a fair fight.

BakedLotion2 votes

Wut. Kat instantly kills any squishy.

Mecha MaIphite1 votes

Udyr isn't squishy.

Mecha MaIphite2 votes

Nope. She's too squishy, and doesn't have the damage or self-peel to fight off bruisers like other squishy duelists do.

If you're looking for a good 1v1 champ, try playing champions like Jax Irelia Tryndamere XinZhao . Most AA-reliant melees tend to be good duelists, because they usually have defensive steroids to give them an edge over their ranged counterparts.

ViperFangs1 votes

I have trynadenemere and xin I got a pentakill from xin in the first game I played with him

ViperFangs1 votes

I have took out 2 tanks in a game at the same moment I don't know how but I did it it was not easy but I did at the same time she is squishy but having high burst damage every champ is like this like Yasuo ekko they are squishy but have high burst damage they can kill their oppents without taking much damage and Katarina is like that too

Mass1 votes

she is good vs someone who is squishy... keyword.. ROAM

FANTAsticOrange1 votes

Katarina has a particularly safe laning phase, simply because she has long range last hit tools and a blink on a short cooldown. If she never initiates on her enemy or over extends, theoretically she won't die in laning phase. Combined with skill cap this can be abused, simply by Poking and being invincible at the same time: i.e. Casting Q on the caster minions of a wave ultimately bouncing onto the enemy champion or getting in melee range of an enemy champion, Q Wing them and Shunpoing (E) away.

SO I suppose you could call her a good 1v1er in the sense of laning.

However, late game when she has full build, she has difficulties winning long trades against champions with CC or lots of resistances that can keep her on her toes for long times. So Tankier enemies, like Nautilus will win 1vs1s because he will just never die and kill Katarina with 50 damage autos, while a champion like Kog'Maw will be instantly deleted by her insane burst.

SO Late game, I suppose you could call her a good assassin, in the sense of eliminating squishies.

IN YOUR CASE, against Udyr mid, that lane could go either way but ultimately goes off flaws made by the Katarina. I would say, practice her, primarily in the laning phase, because it makes late game so much easier as well.

Hope this helps :)

FANTAsticOrange1 votes

I was downvoted so quickly it is just.. wow.

I hit post and it said 0 votes Q_Q

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