Katarina

the Sinister Blade

MidPatch 16.21Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

51%

Pick rate

Ban rate

21%

Games

2.41k

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
91%52%2.2k
Flash + Teleport
4.9%45%119
Teleport + Ignite
1.4%—33

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion
26%49%626
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
19%49%466
Dark Seal, Refillable Potion, Stealth Ward
11%53%268

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Lich Bane → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap
11%62%271
Kraken Slayer → Terminus → Death's Dance
11%63%259
Kraken Slayer → Blade of The Ruined King → Terminus
11%61%257

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
50%54%1.2k
Mercury's Treads
19%48%464
Plated Steelcaps
12%53%299

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Death's Dance
4.8%60%
Rabadon's Deathcap
4.6%51%
Zhonya's Hourglass
4.1%61%
Void Staff
3.0%66%

Fifth item

Void Staff
1.1%—
Zhonya's Hourglass
0.9%—

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Bouncing Blade → Shunpo → Preparation

73%54%1.7k

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

E › Q › W15% of games52% win

Matchups

How games went when this mid met them

Does well into

vs its own average

Struggles into

vs its own average

Counted from 38,058 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.21 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.