Katarina

the Sinister Blade

MidPatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

52%

Pick rate

Ban rate

22%

Games

544

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
90%51%490
Flash + Teleport
4.6%—25
Exhaust + Flash
3.9%—21

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion
30%52%164
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
19%44%104
Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
13%56%70

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Kraken Slayer → Blade of The Ruined King → Terminus
19%60%103
Kraken Slayer → Terminus → Death's Dance
7.2%—39
Lich Bane → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap
6.6%—36

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
45%54%245
Plated Steelcaps
19%51%102
Mercury's Treads
16%57%86

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Void Staff
4.4%—
Jak'Sho, The Protean
4.4%—
Zhonya's Hourglass
3.3%—

Fifth item

Not enough games yet

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Bouncing Blade → Shunpo → Preparation

61%54%334

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 › W23% of games56% 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.

Counted from 11,768 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.17 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.