Katarina

the Sinister Blade

MidPatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

51%

Pick rate

Ban rate

18%

Games

1.99k

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
94%51%1.9k
Flash + Teleport
3.9%51%77
Exhaust + Flash
0.8%—16

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion
27%53%530
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
15%45%301
Dark Seal, Refillable Potion
12%55%242

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Kraken Slayer → Blade of The Ruined King → Terminus
11%59%217
Lich Bane → Shadowflame → Zhonya's Hourglass
10%62%203
Lich Bane → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap
9.6%66%191

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
53%53%1.0k
Mercury's Treads
16%52%318
Plated Steelcaps
12%49%244

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Zhonya's Hourglass
4.8%53%
Rabadon's Deathcap
4.8%63%
Void Staff
3.0%65%
Death's Dance
2.4%—

Fifth item

Void Staff
1.5%—

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Bouncing Blade → Shunpo → Preparation

72%54%1.4k

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 › W14% of games53% 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 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.