Wild Rift: KATARINA Build Guide

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League of Legends: Wild Rift KATARINA, role - Assassin / Mage. Use the guidelines to take your KATARINA Wild Rift champion play style to the next level. Study in detail the build of items, runes, spells, skills that need to be developed in the first place. In order to find out what position KATARINA is in the rating table, go to the - Tier List page.

58 (3.64)	630 (128)	8 (0.78)
0.8 (0.015)	0 (0)	0 (0)
345 (0)	30 (5)	38 (2)
175 (0)

(PASSIVE) VORACITY

Whenever an enemy champion dies that Katarina has damaged in the last 3 seconds, her remaining ability cooldowns are reduced by 15 seconds.

Katarina slashes at all nearby enemies whenever she picks up a Dagger, dealing 40 magic damage (40 (+15 ) + 100% bonus + 30% (+4% ) ).

(Q) BOUNCING BLADE

10/9/8/7s

Throws a Dagger, dealing 75 magic damage (75/115/155/195 + 30% ) to the target and 2 nearby enemies. The dagger then ricochets to the ground behind the initial strike point.

The Dagger's time in the air is the same regardless of how many times it bounces.

(W) PREPARATION

14/13/12/11s

Tosses a Dagger in the air and hastes Katarina by 40/50/60/70%.

(E) SHUNPO

14/12/10/8s

Blink to a location near a Dagger or unit, dealing 49 magic damage (20/50/80/110 + 50% + 30% ) to the nearest enemy.

Picking up a Dagger greatly reduces the Cooldown of Shunpo.

Range: 6

(R) DEATH LOTUS

60/50/40s

Rapidly throws blades at the 3 nearest enemy champions, dealing 400 magic damage (400/600/800 + 260% bonus + 290% ) and applying Grievous Wounds. Katarina can move and throw blades for up to 2.6 seconds.

Grievous Wounds reduces the effect of Healing and Regeneration effects on 50%.

While cast, Katarina's base movement speed is reduced to 125.

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Mid KATARINA Build items and runes

The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Mid Line KATARINA. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.

Key items

TIPS: Start your build with

Amplifying Tome. Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy

Boots of Speed at an early stage.

Start

Amplifying Tome

Amplifying Tome

+25 Ability Power

500

Core

Infinity Orb

Infinity Orb
Abilities deal bonus damage

+85 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration

Destiny: +5% Move Speed.
Balanced: +15 Magic Penetration.
Inevitable Demise: Abilities and empowered attacks Critically Strike for 20% bonus damage against enemies below 35% Health.

3200

Infinity Orb TIPS: This item increases damage to enemies with low health. Indispensable for mages and assassins with magical damage type.

Boots of Mana

Boots of Mana
Ability Power, Magic Penetration, Mana Regeneration

+55 Ability Power
+45 Move Speed.
+150% Mana Regeneration

Magic Break: +8% Magic Penetration.
Big Bully: Attacks and active abilities deal 18 bonus physical damage to minions.

1400

Rabadon's Deathcap

Rabadon's Deathcap
Boosts Ability Power

+100 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration

Overkill: Increases Ability Power by 20-45%.

3400

Rabadon's Deathcap TIPS: A huge power spike for champions with high AP ratios to increase AP by 20-45% and significantly increase their damage. Most effective against enemy teams that lack magic resistance or have squishy targets.

Boots/Enchant

Boots of Mana

Stasis Enchant

Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable

Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown)

1000

Stasis Enchant TIPS: Good against assassins and burst damage.

Quicksilver Enchant

Quicksilver Enchant
Dispels crowd control

Quicksilver (Active): Removes all crowd control effects currently affecting you, and become immune to crowd control effects for 0.75 seconds.
Perseverance (Passive): After the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)

Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects.

800

TIPS: Finally, for your items, you should build

Infinity Orb (Abilities deal bonus damage) as your first item, followed by

Boots of Mana (Grants Ability Power, Magic Penetration and Mana Regeneration) (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is

Rabadon's Deathcap (Boosts Ability Power).

Maybe now it's time to think about upgrading your boot, invest in

Stasis Enchant (Turn invulnerable). You may want to replace it with

Quicksilver Enchant (Dispels crowd control), it all depends on your playstyle and the situation on the battlefield.

The remaining last three items are situational, of course you can use the example builds above. But for a more effective game you will need to pay attention to the situation on the battlefield.

Example build

Infinity Orb

Boots of Mana

Rabadon's Deathcap

Crown of the Shattered Queen

Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability

+60 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration
+200 Max Mana
+20 Ability Haste

Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s.

3000

Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: Defensive and offensive item, great for champions that need to engage and protect themselves from crowd control. It's most effective against champions with crucial abilities that can be blocked by its active shield, such as Ashe, Lux, Morgana.

Riftmaker

Riftmaker
Ramping Damage

+150 Max Health
+80 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration
+15 Ability Haste

Assimilation: +11% Omnivamp.
Void Corruption: When in combat with champions, gain 1 stack(s) of Corruption every 1 second(s). Each stack increases the damage you deal by 2.5%, up to 3 stacks. At maximum stacks, the additional damage provided by Corruption becomes true damage.

3300

Riftmaker TIPS: This item increases damage over time while fighting.

Liandry's Torment

Liandry's Torment
Abilities deal bonus damage

+250 Max Health
+75 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration

Torment: Damaging abilities or empowered attacks deal 20 + 0.5%+ 0.4% of enemy's max Health as bonus magic damage over 3 seconds.

3000

Liandry's Torment TIPS: Liandry's is good against tanks. Pick it up when the enemy consists of multiple tank champions.

Situational items

Buy items that will effectively counter your opponents, help you and your allies. Use this section to find out which items will be useful to you in a particular situation.

Сhange

Anti-Shielding

Liandry's Torment

Oceanid's Trident

Oceanid's Trident
Anti-Shielding

+200 Max Health
+80 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration
+10 Ability Haste

Lethal Weapon: Dealing ability damage to an enemy champion reduces any shields they gain for 3 seconds. Area of effect abilities apply (5% of bonus AP + 25)% shield reduction, capped at 45%; while single target abilities apply (5% of bonus AP + 40)% shield reduction, capped at 60%. When you damage an enemy who is unaffected by Lethal Weapon, all shields on them are reduced by the same values.

2600

Oceanid's Trident TIPS: If you're an mage-assassin and the enemy has a lot of shields, pick this item up to make destroying their shields easier.

If you're an mage-assassin and the enemy has a lot of shields, pick this item up to make destroying their shields easier.

Reduce physical damage and deals magic damage back

Liandry's Torment

Crystalline Reflector

Crystalline Reflector
Reduce physical damage and deals magic damage back

+200 Max Health
+45 Armor
+60 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration

Mirroed Force: Each ability cast grants a mirror shard that lasts 3 second(s). The shard blocks 8-25 incoming physical damage from enemy champions and deals magic damage equal to 10 + 3% AP + 1% bonus Health to them. Shard durations do not stack.

3000

Crystalline Reflector TIPS: A great item for a mage assassin, it will increase survivability against champions with a physical damage type. It also reflects physical damage back to the attacker as magical damage.

A great item for a mage assassin, it will increase survivability against champions with a physical damage type. It also reflects physical damage back to the attacker as magical damage.

Delays damage taken

Liandry's Torment

Death's Dance

Death's Dance
Delays damage taken

+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste

Dance: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 10% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 32% of physical damage received (12% if the equipped champion is ranged) is dealt to you over 3 seconds as true damage instead.

3000

Death's Dance TIPS: Effective against champions with high burst damage or who rely on abilities to deal damage, such as assassins like Zed, Kha'Zix, Talon. The item's passive damage reduction and healing can help mitigate their burst and sustain through extended fights.

Effective against champions with high burst damage or who rely on abilities to deal damage, such as assassins like Zed, Kha'Zix, Talon. The item's passive damage reduction and healing can help mitigate their burst and sustain through extended fights.

Summoner Spells

If you want to use this KATARINA Mid build, you should take

Flash (Teleport a short distance) and

Barrier (Gain a shield) as your Summoner Spells.

Flash

Flash

Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.

Cooldown: 150s

Barrier

Barrier

Gain a shield that absorbs 120 (120–560 ) damage for 2.5 seconds.

Cooldown: 100s

Ignite

Ignite

Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380 ) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.

Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.

Cooldown: 100s

Runes BUILD

For runes, you should pick

First Strike (Obtains gold and bonus damage when initiate deals damage.) as your keystone, followed by

Sudden Impact (After dashing or exiting invisibility/stealth, your next damaging attack or ability deals true damage on hit.),

Mark of the Weak (After an ability damages an enemy champion, causes them to take increased damage.) and

Eyeball Collector (Gains Adaptive Force after champion takedowns.) in the primary tree, as well as

Bone Plating (Reduces incoming damage.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.

First Strike
Bonus Gold, Bonus Damage

0.25s after engaging an enemy champion in combat, dealing damage to them grants 10 gold and a First Strike effect that lasts 3s to you, allowing you to deal 8% bonus true damage to the enemy champion. Once the effect has ended, gain gold according to the bonus damage dealt (melee: 100% /ranged: 85%) during the effect.

Cooldown: 20s

First Strike

Bonus Gold, Bonus Damage

Obtains gold and bonus damage when initiate deals damage.

Sudden Impact
Bonus Damage

Damaging an enemy champion deals a bonus 10-80 true damage after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when exiting stealth for 4s.

The damaging attack/ability gains bonuses at higher levels:
Level 5: Deal an additional 10 true damage.
Level 9: Deal an additional 20 true damage and gain 10% Movement Speed for 1.5s after dealing the damage.

Cooldown: 10s

Sudden Impact

Bonus Damage

After dashing or exiting invisibility/stealth, your next damaging attack or ability deals true damage on hit.

Mark of the Weak
Increase damage taken

Using abilities to deal damage to enemy champions will mark them as weak, increasing damage taken by them by 4-7% (). The mark disappears after they take ability damage 3 times, or after 7s have passed.

Cooldown: 15s

Mark of the Weak

Increase damage taken

After an ability damages an enemy champion, causes them to take increased damage.

Eyeball Collector
Adaptive Force

Gains 1 or 2 after each unique enemy champion takedown, stacking up to 10 times.

At 10 stacks, gain bonus 10 or 20.

Eyeball Collector

Adaptive Force

Gains Adaptive Force after champion takedowns.

Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage

When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 () less damage.

Cooldown: 30s

Bone Plating

Block Combo-damage

Reduces incoming damage.

Skills Order

For the skill order, you want to stick with (Q) (E) (W). You can learn more about abilities order at all levels by studying the diagram below.

(Q) BOUNCING BLADE

(W) PREPARATION

14/13/12/11s

Tosses a Dagger in the air and hastes Katarina by 40/50/60/70%.

(W) PREPARATION

(E) SHUNPO

(R) DEATH LOTUS

Mid KATARINA Counters

We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Mid KATARINA. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!

Threats

Extreme

[7]

Major

[8]

Even

[12]

Minor

[6]

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Synergies

Ideal

[8]

Strong

[14]

Low

[5]

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Mid KATARINA Counter Items

We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Mid KATARINA in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!

Magic Resist

Items with magic resistance can help you to survive against KATARINA combo.

Mercury's Treads

Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage

+200 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+35 Magic Resistance
+45 Move Speed.

Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken by 7-12% ().

1350

Spirit Visage

Spirit Visage
Increases healing and shielding received

+350 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+50 Magic Resistance
+20 Ability Haste

Blessed: Increases all healing, regen, drain effects and shields on yourself by 30%.

2800

Spirit Visage TIPS: It is a strong item to amplify in-build sustain (to increase healing and health regeneration). It's good against magic damage champions who deal sustained damage like Vladimir and Swain; against burst mages like Syndra and Veigar to survive their initial burst and heal up quickly.

Force of Nature

Force of Nature
Stacking Magic Resist and Move Speed

+350 Max Health
+55 Magic Resistance

Storm: +5% Move Speed.
Absorb: Taking ability damage from enemy champions grants 1 stack(s) of Steadfast for 7 seconds, max 4 stacks. Receiving damage from an enemy Champion will refresh the duration of the stacks. At maximum stacks, gain 10% Movement Speed and reduce all incoming magic damage by 25%.

2750

Force of Nature TIPS: Tank item which is recommended in situations where: 1) enemy team has a lot of magic damage; 2) you need increased movement speed. Effective against champions like Syndra, Brand, etc.

Maw of Malmortius

Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield

+55 Attack Damage
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste

Demonbane: 20% of the damage that your attack deals, or 15% of the physical damage that your abilities deal is converted into a magic shield that absorbs up to 60-400 magic damage. The shield decays by 5% per second.

3000

Maw of Malmortius TIPS: Good choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie who can quickly take you down. It's also effective against sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.

Wit's End

Wit's End
Basic Attack deals Bonus Damage

+45% Attack Speed
+45 Magic Resistance

At Wit's End: Basic attacks deal 15-65 bonus magic damage. While below 50% Health, dealing damage to an enemy champion heals you for (Melee 100%/Range 33%) of this effect's post-mitigation damage.

2700

Wit's End TIPS: A good item to build if you want to deal sustained damage and have some defensive stats against magic damage threats. Most commonly bought on champions that can benefit from it’s on-hit damage like Vayne, Irelia or Master Yi.

Armor

Items that reduce Auto Attacks (AA) / Physical Damage.

Guardian Angel

Guardian Angel
Revives at death

+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor

Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)

3400

Guardian Angel TIPS: Second chance in teamfights. Effective against high burst damage champions (Zed, Syndra, Zoe, etc.) and strong diving potential (Camille, Kha’Zix, Lee Sin, etc.).

Cleanse or Block Spells

Items with ability or property to cleanse or block negative spells.

Stasis Enchant

Gain a Shield

Gives you a shield that increases your chances of survival against KATARINA.

Sterak's Gage

Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield

+400 Max Health

Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35% Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health that decays over 3 seconds (90s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.

3200

Sterak's Gage TIPS: Increase survivability in team fights to be tankier frontliner. It's effective against champions with burst damage like Zed, Talon and against champions with heavy CC like Lissandra and Nautilus, as the shield can help you survive their initial burst and crowd control.

Maw of Malmortius

Immortal Shieldbow

Immortal Shieldbow
Gain a Shield and Physical Vamp when health is low

+40 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
+5% Physical Vamp

Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35% Health preemptively grants a shield that absorbs 250-550 damage () for 5 seconds. (90s Cooldown).

Buttle Furor: Triggering Lifeline grants +8% Physical Vamp for 8 seconds.

3000

Immortal Shieldbow TIPS: Recommended when you need a lot of sustain in fights; play a champion that benefits from high AD, (i.e. Draven, Jhin) or facing champions that deal a lot of physical damage (i.e. Zed, Master Yi, Tryndamere).

Locket Enchant

Locket Enchant
Area of effect magic shield

Locket (Active): Grants a shield to yourself and nearby allied champions that each absorbs 60-330 damage for 2.5 seconds. (60s cooldown)

This effect is reduced by 50% if the target has been affected by another Locket in the last 20 seconds.

500

Locket Enchant TIPS: Is great on tanks who are good in team fights.

Stoneplate Enchant

Stoneplate Enchant
Shield

Stoneplate (Active): Gain a shield that absorbs 28% of your max Health. The shield decays over 4 seconds. (60s Cooldown) Fore every enemy nearby, gain an additional shield that absorbs damage equal to 10% of max Health, capped at 3 shields. Damage dealt is reduced by 40% for 4 seconds. If the shield breaks early, damage reduction will end.

500

Mid KATARINA Tips

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Mid KATARINA Strengths and Weaknesses

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Mid (Гибрид) KATARINA Build items and runes

The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Mid (Гибрид) Line KATARINA. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.