Katarina, the Sinister Blade, is a melee assassin and mage champion. In fights Katarina is a fragile champion who deals mixed physical and magic damage in bursts. Here are the augments Katarina players take most, the Prismatic items worth grabbing and the core build on patch 26.20.
After casting your Ultimate, mark all enemy champions for death. While marked, store damage dealt to them, and detonate the damage when the mark ends.
Casting Death Lotus (R) marks every enemy champion, so the damage your channel and dagger combo deal gets stored and released in one burst when the mark ends.
Gain 15% Armor Penetration and Magic Penetration.
Your Bouncing Blade (Q), Shunpo (E) and dagger slashes deal magic damage while Death Lotus (R) adds physical, so both penetrations raise nearly all your damage.
In game, Hexgate puts a badge under every augment card you are offered, with how often Katarina players take it.
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Based on 30,548 Katarina games in Arena on patch 26.20. Augments and items are ordered by how often Katarina players take them; the bars compare each one with the most taken.
Augment offers come in Silver, Gold and Prismatic. These are the cards Katarina players take most at each rarity, most taken first.
Mystic Punch
Jeweled Gauntlet
Symphony of War
It's Killing Time
Thread the Needle
Marksmage
Transmute: Prismatic
Goredrink
ADAPtThe Prismatic items Katarina players pick most often from the offer, most picked first.
Runecarver
Twilight's Edge
Decapitator
Divine Sunderer
Hemomancer's Helm
FlesheaterBoots to start, then the items Katarina players build most often in Arena, most built first. Adapt the order to the lobby: every other team is an opponent.
Sorcerer's Shoes
Gluttonous Greaves
Hextech Gunblade
Blade of The Ruined King
Terminus
Kraken Slayer
Rabadon's Deathcap
ShadowflameThe order Katarina players level their abilities in most often: max Bouncing Blade (Q) first, then Shunpo (E), and take Death Lotus (R) whenever you can.
QBouncing Blade
EShunpo
WPreparation| Level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | ||||||||||
| W | W | W | W | ||||||||||||
| E | E | E | E | E | E | ||||||||||
| R | R | R |
On patch 26.20 Katarina players take It's Killing Time, Mystic Punch and Thread the Needle most often.
The Prismatic items Katarina players pick most are Runecarver, Twilight's Edge and Decapitator.
Start with Sorcerer's Shoes, then the items Katarina players build most: Hextech Gunblade, Blade of The Ruined King and Terminus. Adapt the rest to the lobby.
Max Bouncing Blade (Q) first, then Shunpo (E), and level Death Lotus (R) whenever you can.
On patch 26.20 Katarina is B tier in the Arena tier list: solid picks.
Arena tier list for all champions · Katarina in ARAM Mayhem
Champion names, art, items and abilities: Riot Games Data Dragon. Augment names, art and text: the game files. Hexgate is not endorsed by Riot Games.
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