Katarina

the Sinister Blade

BotPatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

52%

Pick rate

Ban rate

18%

Games

457

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
70%54%320
Exhaust + Flash
11%—48
Flash + Barrier
9.6%—44

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion
43%53%198
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
31%54%140
Doran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
9.2%—42

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Kraken Slayer → Blade of The Ruined King → Terminus
29%61%132
Kraken Slayer → Terminus → Death's Dance
25%64%113
Kraken Slayer → Terminus → Blade of The Ruined King
4.8%—22

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
31%54%142
Gluttonous Greaves
26%60%119
Mercury's Treads
24%55%110

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Death's Dance
12%60%
Jak'Sho, The Protean
10%—
Experimental Hexplate
7.4%—

Fifth item

Jak'Sho, The Protean
3.9%—

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Bouncing Blade → Shunpo → Preparation

46%56%211

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 › W34% of games58% win

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Bot lane partners

The supports they queue with

Braum55%77

Counted from 34,456 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.18 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.