How to play the Katarina matchup?

The following tips and strategies have been shared by players to help you win against Katarina.

How to lane against Katarina?

The following tips and strategies have been shared by players to help you win against Katarina.

Katarina Matchups Spreadsheet

Matchup	Difficulty	Win Rate	Games Played	Early	Mid	Late	Tips
Ahri	6	52.18%	4,086	Skill	Skill	Skill	Play around avoiding Ahri Charm with your mobility, set up your Q's E in jump away and make sure you don't get hit by abilities. Electrocute is much stronger than Conqueror her post 6 because she will be harder to stick onto her
Akali	7	52.89%	2,322	Skill	Skill	Skill	Hover Akali Q max range and make her miss it, also dodge Akali E by either setting up good daggers to dodge with and minimize damage taken. Hard to 1v1 her post 6, generally don't take that fight when its up. You can ult through her shroud but make sure her mobility is spent. Take short burst trades with her and electrocute
Akshan	7	51.05%	1,052	Lose	Skill	Skill	Ranged lane bully but you can punish his E, you can stop his E by standing in between him swinging, you can even E on top of him mid E. With Conqueror you have the capacity to stick onto Akshan and all-in provided you're able to outplay his E and not eat free poke
Anivia	8	49.35%	772	Skill	Lose	Lose	Dodge Anivia Q and punish, her auto range is also very high, easier said than done due to how large the Q hitbox is. The good news is Anivia is overly mana hungry and squishy so you have windows to abuse her in the early game. Post 6, she's likely to avoid laning with her R waveclear
Annie	8	47.82%	849	Skill	Skill	Skill	She has range and auto advantage. If her stun is ever down, punish her with long sword and conqueror all-in. Be careful in this matchup and be safe until she burns her passive, you really need to micromanager it
AurelionSol	2			Win	Win	Skill	Easy lane, Asol usually plays to scale and roam constantly shoving in lane. You can punish and try to fight him during lane. The one annoying thing is ASol W which he'll use to get away from hard engages. If he's ever pushed up, you try to fight and kill him. He gets stronger when scaled so you need to put him behind early. Ping his roams.
Azir	7	52.19%	958	Win	Skill	Lose	Hard matchup due to range advantage,when he uses W to place soldier and Qs, he can't resposition his soldiers then so jump onto him and stick to fight. Post 6 this becomes more tricky because you need to find a way aroudn Azir ult when you jump in, can get complicated
Brand	2			Win	Win	Skill	Main thing to avoid here is Brand Q, if you can avoid it, you can all-in him and auto him down with conqueror. Easy to snowball off of but do not underestimate his damage
Cassiopeia	8	47.11%	588	Skill	Skill	Lose	Critical to dodge Cassiopeia Q multiple times, her W is annoying to ground you just make sure you don't jump into a dagger that makes it easier to land a WQ, you need to play this fast tempo/evasive to make it hard for Cass to adapt. When she ults, you can turn aroudn and face away from her and cast your ultimate to not get stunned. Can go either conqueror or electrocute here. short burst/extended trades work but you have to dodge her Q's either way
Corki	2	53.86%	1,255	Win	Win	Skill	Go for short burst trades with Electrocute. Easy lane, corki is not much of threat
Diana	7			Skill	Skill	Skill	Its very hard to dodge Diana's Q, but it only swings one way try to outmanuever it. She has her W shield making it hard to interact with her in melee range making electrocute short burst trades favorable here and try not to interact with her outside of that. Diana relies on landing q to do her combo, she will go for QEintoE again with her W hovering. If you jump over her Q engaging on her while dodging, you're likely to win the trade. Also respect Diana R, you'll likely have to bait it out and reengage
Ekko	6	50.62%	1,284	Skill	Skill	Lose	Do not let Ekko proc 3 hit passive with electrocute, Ekkos love to cheese with W in a bush while you're clearing a wave, be prepared. Ekkos constantly shove the wave with Q and roam, so punish Ekko when he Q's the wave. Relatively even matchup. Q setup when he goes for minions. Trading R's while winning trades is viable, since Ekko is overly reliant on his R.
Fizz	8	51.48%	1,117	Skill	Skill	Lose	You have to stay out of his Q range, he'll just hit you with electrocute and jump out for free. You also don't want to get hit by his E which will slow you into another electrocute trade. Go for Doran's Shield and an uninteractive lane, Go for short burst trades with electrocute and sustain back up. Because he's melee and relys on a DOT dps on his W, its a managable lane
Galio	5	46.83%	2,430	Skill	Skill	Skill	Most of Galio's damage is connected, if he lands his taunt, he'll lands E into Q. Should you survive the inital burst, if you can jump back in on him, you can continute to fight because Galio is out of damage which is frontloaded in short trades. You win extended fights here with conqueror. Best case scenario Galio misses an ability
Gangplank	5			Skill	Skill	Skill	You are looking to not get poked out during lane and go all in with Conqueror long sword. You need to make him miss his barrels. GP being immobile means you can snowball off him with a lead. He misses a barrel, you immidiently punish
Heimerdinger	8	52.77%	343	Skill	Skill	Skill	Lots of harass in this late, you need to watch out primarily for heimerdingers E stun but also his turret empowered autos and his W poke. A good strategy is to go in pressure him to use his E, dodge it and then all-in. Most of the time, he'll be pushing you in and you'll be farming under tower
Irelia	7	53.37%	1,411	Skill	Skill	Lose	She statchecks you if she hits 6 stacks on her Q, the goal here is to dodge her E, if you dodge it all-in her with conqueror. if you don't dodge you're going to struggle. If Irelia has R be ready to jump out of it
Jayce	8	50.85%	2,177	Skill	Skill	Skill	He's going to mainly harass you with EQ combo, whenever you jump into daggers, he'll go straight into hammer form and beat you. Do your best to dodge Jayce EQ and go for burst trades where you jump in proc electroctue and get out taking little damage. Whenver Jayce switches from Hammer to cannon form, he cannot switch for 3-4 seconds giving you an opening for an extended trade. Dont look for all in until Jayce burns his E or until he changes form
Kassadin	4	49.04%	1,044	Win	Lose	Lose	Play aggressive early game with conqueror, do not let him scale for free and snowball off of him.
Leblanc	8	54.08%	1,716	Skill	Skill	Skill	Early game Lane bully, watch out for her QW combo and her chains. She's also auto harass you quite a bit, so go dorans to sustain. Your main plan is to go for short burst trades with electrocute to wither her down and sustain.
Lissandra	8	48.95%	1,575	Skill	Skill	Lose	Lissandra looks for frontloaded burst trades and she will disengage with her E. You need to look openings to fight her with EW onto her and force her E and then look for another opening since Liss E is high CD. If she doesn't walk up, you control the lane. Sometimes if she's pushed up too far, you can follow her E with your mobility. This is a lane you're looking for all-ins not short burst trades
Lucian	7	52.77%	3,900	Skill	Skill	Skill	Difficult ranged harass matchup, if he ever uses his E aggressively forward, immidiently go for the all-in with conqueror and you can win. You are reliant on finding good openings to win this and do not take free poke damage.
Lux	4			Skill	Skill	Win	If you dodge her Q, you have to punish, Set up Q's while she tries to farm and go in for poke, abuse your mobility against her skillshots.
Malphite		50.97%	1,646
Malzahar	7	52.18%	1,838	Skill	Skill	Skill	Malz has really strong poke, but you will win sustained fights by sticking onto him and autoing him down. Whenever Malzahar uses E to push the wave, you have a massive opening to all-in him.
Neeko	9	52.79%	591	Skill	Skill	Skill	Heavy poke lane, critical to avoid Neeko E and Q need good movements, post 6 if you're rooted you'll get ulted and die. Its hard to stick onto Neeko due to her W,so to trade you set up a dagger, E, and proc the electrocute so your damage is frontloaded. Rinse and repeat. If you're bad at dodging go doran's shield
Orianna	6	54.54%	1,454	Win	Skill	Lose	Expect a lot of harass in this lane, but you have openings to punish her early Qs being aroudn 4 second CD, if you predict it, jump in and fight her while the ball is still in motion away from her. Its possible to statcheck her with Conqueror with a good opening
Qiyana	7	51.06%	989	Skill	Skill	Skill	She mainly has 2 Qs in her trading pattern, if you ever go in a trade with electrocute proc it and get out in short trades. Its all about dodging her 2 Qs, if you can then you hard punish. Careful about standing too close to walls. Be aware of her powerspikes with lethality
Ryze	6	49.94%	895	Win	Skill	Lose	Ryze is likely to try to shove him and build his tear, pressure him as he tries to farm. His early game isn't great but once he's 6 he will start scaling well. He's a phase rush user so its better to go for short burst trades
Swain	3	52.45%	755	Win	Skill	Skill	Easy matchup, if Swain ever misses E, you all-in and kill him pre-6. Post-6 he's trickier but you should have built a lead up to this point, just keep dodging his E and keep 1 shotting him
Sylas	6	52.38%	3,240	Skill	Skill	Skill	Tricky matchup due to Sylas sustain from W. You can win all-ins but you need to dodge the E2 from Sylas to win. Get rid of his mobility skills before going for all-in, test his ability to land his E. Do not go for short burst trades where Sylas can just sustain himself back up
Syndra	8	54.38%	2,330	Skill	Skill	Skill	Need to dodge a lot in this matchup, she will Q contest you on every cs. The main threat is Syndra E. Jump over it and juke it with your abilities. If you dodge the E, you can all-in with conqueror. Require really good movements to win this matchup.
Talon	3	52.12%	1,370	Skill	Skill	Lose	Goal here is to prevent Talon from proccing his passive and also watch out for Talon's level 2 cheese. Talon will throw out his W and if it hits, they'll aggressively try to proc passive. Thats all Talon has so if you avoid it, you can all-in with conqueror. Post 6- you need to evaluate his threat level and if he has the damage to burst you 100-0, if the anwser is no then you can just jump on him and full combo, and he'll likely have to ult out
Tristana	10			Skill	Skill	Skill	Cheese counterpick. She can push you into tower all game, she can destory your tower at 10 minutes with E. If she uses E onto you, you need a way to jump away and minimize damage taken. You need to survive till you have items. Take short trades and do not give her an early lead and don't get poked
TwistedFate	1			Win	Skill	Skill	He only really has one ability to respect his W stun, if he doesn't have it up, you can always fight him so if he blue or red cards to wave you can run him down all in. TF is squishy and not strong without items and reliant on roaming.
Veigar	1	54.69%	1,013	Win	Skill	Lose	You can easily jump out of his cage and outplay him. If you can ever E onto him, fight him all-in and kill him. If you shove him in, he'll struggle to farm with Q under tower.
Velkoz	2	55.08%	1,044	Win	Skill	Skill	You need to dodge Velcoz's Q while you farm, set up your daggers and proc electocute for short burst trades. Critical to dodge Velcoz E, its vital to Velcoz's full combo, if you dodge it you can just all-in him. Respect Velkoz's damage and range
Vex	9	49.27%	1,102	Skill	Lose	Lose	Difficult matchup, you can't go for short trades becaues of her W. Her fear bar also counters Kat. We need to look for a small window of opening, like Vex uses her Q on the wave, you can fight her all-in with conqueror
Viktor	6	52.1%	2,115	Skill	Skill	Lose	He has E poke, q shield, W stun. The goal here is to avoid the W stun, you need to set up q's and jump in proc electrocute jump out and use doran's shield to sustain the poke. Do not Eat too many viktor's E. Post 6, do not ult before Viktor ults because he can easily cancel yours. Short burst trade lane
Vladimir	8	48.33%	1,732	Win	Skill	Lose	Extremely bad matchup due to his sustain, recommended to take Conqueror and try to go for a sustained fight and run him down. Very hard if he takes phase rush, if he doesn't have it you can easily run him down
Xerath	1	57.18%	871	Win	Skill	Skill	Easy matchup, even if you take xeraths's stun up close to him its not very long. Xerath will be easy to kill at all points if you can get on him. Just look for openings to get on him and dont eat free poke early game. Conqueror or Electroctue both work here
Yasuo	8	48.26%	3,079	Skill	Skill	Lose	Dodge his q's and make sure he doesn't get his second q's. You can win sustained fights using Conqueror but you must dodge Q's and work around his windwall. Don't be rash with your dagger placements because you know he's going to E aroudn your minion wave. Its a difficult matchup but you have the tools to outplay Yasuo. Windwall can mess with your ult/q so don't commit too hard until windwall is down, after berseker graves its much harder to dodge so respect him
Yone	4	57.41%	2,261	Skill	Lose	Lose	Same as Yasuo but Yone has no windwall making the matchup easier. Q2 is telegraphed placing him forward allowing you to punish that. You have the mobility to outmanuever the Yone E and you need to stick onto him with Conqueror for extended trades
Zed	5	52.28%	2,921	Skill	Skill	Lose	Do your best to avoid Zed's WQ combo, dont distance yourself too far from him. You need be a bit closer so you have more angles to dodge from. If you're close enough, you can punish his W by using E directly onto him. It can be good to stand behind minions, dodge shurkiens, go for short electrocute trades, repeat. Post 6, he has a ton of all-in potential. once he ults you, get ready to make some high-level dodge manuevers
Ziggs	3	56.36%	456	Skill	Skill	Skill	Another poke lane testing your dodging abilities, Ziggs kit is strong for pushing in the wave, make him choose between poking you or the wave by sitting on the side of the wave NOT in the wave. If he uses W for damage , always punish. With Dark seal, push for electrocute short burst trades
Zilean	2	51.33%	937	Win	Skill	Skill	The key is to dodge Zilean's double bombs, single bombs should not matter. Take his speed up and slow into accoutn. If he misses a bomb you should look to punish. Recommended to take electrocute for short burst trades and play very aggressive in this lane before Zilean scales up.
Zoe	7	51.32%	984	Skill	Skill	Skill	If you dodge Zoe Q or E, you can punish her, her ability to dodge random summoners spells can make it tricky. You go for electrocute burst trades while dodging Zoe E on your way out. You need good movements and have to set up nice daggers in this lane. If she over extends with her Q, you can punish with electrocute. Zoe is mostly telegraphed and reliant on her Q, watch she burns it and punish