Katarina

the Sinister Blade

MidPatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

55%

Pick rate

Ban rate

24%

Games

324

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
88%54%286
Exhaust + Flash
5.2%—17
Flash + Teleport
5.2%—17

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion
28%54%92
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
20%49%65
Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
15%—47

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Kraken Slayer → Blade of The Ruined King → Terminus
22%69%71
Lich Bane → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap
6.8%—22
Kraken Slayer → Terminus → Death's Dance
5.9%—19

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
43%55%139
Plated Steelcaps
19%54%63
Mercury's Treads
15%64%50

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Jak'Sho, The Protean
4.9%—
Void Staff
4.9%—

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

56%55%181

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 › W26% of games61% 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 7,138 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.