Katarina

the Sinister Blade

TopPatch 16.20Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

44%

Pick rate

Ban rate

18%

Games

138

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
80%43%110

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion
34%—47
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
33%—45

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Kraken Slayer → Blade of The Ruined King → Terminus
18%—25

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
28%—38
Sorcerer's Shoes
20%—27
Mercury's Treads
19%—26

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Bouncing Blade → Shunpo → Preparation

63%47%87

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 › W28% of games— 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 54,302 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.20 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.