Katarina Wild Rift Guide, Build and Strategy

Katarina is a mage / assassin champion who is capable of wiping out an entire team. She can dive into the middle of five champions with the help of her ability to spam skills, move freely by blinking and passive effect which lessen the cooldowns of her skills.

How to Play Katarina

• Poke enemies with Bouncing Blade
• Use Death Lotus in teamfights to deal AoE damage
• Make sure that all CC abilities from the enemies are used before using Death Lotus
• You can use Shunpo on an ally to escape from enemies
• Use Preparation to reset the cooldown of Shunpo
• The Rune Electrocute can be triggered by landing Bouncing Blade, Shunpo and Sinister Steel.
• Katarina doesn’t need CD reduction items so focus on on items that grants ability power instead
• Skill Combo: 1st Skill > 2nd Skill > 3rd Skill > 4th Skill

Skills

Passive / Voracity: Takedowns on enemy champions reduce ability Cooldowns by 15 seconds. Katarina slashes at all nearby enemies whenever she picks up a dagger, dealing magic damage.

Skill 1 / Bouncing Blade: Throws a Dagger, dealing magic damage to the target and 2 nearby enemies. The dagger then ricochets to the ground behind the initial strike point.

Skill 2 / Preparation: Tosses a dagger in the air and hastes Katarina by 20%.

Skill 3 / Shunpo: Blink to a location near a dagger or a unit, dealing magic damage to the nearest enemy. Picking up a dagger greatly reduces the cooldown of Shunpo.

Skill 4 / Death Lotus: Rapidly throws blades at the 3 nearest enemy champions, dealing magic damage and applying Grievous Wounds. Katarina can move and throws blades for up to 3 seconds.

Grievous Wounds reduces healing applied to the target by 50%.

Item Build

Hextech Gunblade, Inifinity Orb, Ionian Stasis, Rabadon’s Deathcap, Rylai’s Crystal Scepter, Void Staff

Runes

• Electrocute – Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3 seconds deal bonus adaptive damage.
• Triumph – Champion takedowns restore 10% missing health. Deal 3% more damage to enemies below 35% health.
• Hunter Titan – Gain 20 max health. Unique champion takedowns grant 20 max health and 4% tenacity.
• Hunter Genius – Gain 2.5 Ability Haste. Unique champion takedowns grant 2.5 Ability Haste.

Spells

• Ignite
• Flash

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