the Sinister Blade

Katarina Build

DifficultyHigh

Role

AssassinMage

Lane

Mid

Roles and difficulty from the global official site, lane from the China-server official site

Katarina Win Rate, Pick Rate, Ban Rate & Tier

Stats: League of Legends: Wild Rift (China) official stats (All ranks / Diamond+ / Master+ / Challenger / Rift Apex), as of 2026-10-13

MidMid
Rank tier	Win Rate	Pick Rate	Ban Rate	Tier
All ranks	47.9%	1.4%#35	1.1%	D
Diamond+	47.7%	1.3%#37	0.4%	D
Master+	47.8%	1.4%#37	0.3%	D
Challenger	47.3%	1.6%#36	0.2%	D
Rift Apex	52.9%	2.1%#32	0.2%	D

The tier list shows Master+ figures by default.

Popular Katarina builds in game

Taken from the in-game loadout screen as of 2026-10-07. The pick count and win rate are shown exactly as the game reports them.

Build 1MidWin rate 52.85%Picks 1,662

Ability Power and Magic Penetration build

Runes

When you play mid lane (same items as build 2)

Ability Power totals +575, and Rabadon's Deathcap's Overkill raises AP by a further 30%. The build also carries +40% and +23 Magic Penetration, so magic damage gets through more easily against enemies who stack Magic Resistance. Against enemies below 40% HP, Infinity Orb makes abilities and empowered attacks Critically Strike. Defense comes from the Banshee's Veil spell shield (30 second cooldown) and the active of Zhonya's Hourglass. The active makes you invulnerable for 2.5 seconds but leaves you unable to act, and it has a 90s cooldown.

Build 2MidWin rate 52.73%Picks 1,364

Same Ability Power build as build 1

Runes

When you play mid lane (same items as build 1)

The items and summoner spells (Flash and Ignite) are exactly the same as build 1. Popularity is 1,364, lower than build 1 at 1,662, and the win rate of 52.73% is also below build 1's 52.85%. What build 1's note says about each item applies here as well.

The commentary is AI-written. It is cross-checked against this site’s item data and the official lane assignments before publishing.

Skill Order (Lv 1 - 15)

Ult

Prioritize the skill crucial for damage and dagger placement first, then level the blink to your daggers.

Katarina Strengths

✓Kills or assists reduce all cooldowns by 15 seconds.
✓AoE burst damage that melts enemies in moments.
✓High mobility from targeted blinks.

Katarina Weaknesses

×Vulnerable to hard CC, which easily interrupts her Ult
×Struggles to take priority in the early lane
×Depends on dagger placement and needs precise positioning

Katarina Early Game

Early on, use Skill 1 to farm safely and poke. From Level 3, short trades where you jump in with Skill 3 are strong. Getting hit by enemy CC is fatal, so always keep track of which skills they have used.

Katarina Mid Game

Shove the lane quickly and join roams to side lanes or jungle skirmishes. With your kill resets you can chain multi-kills and swing the game in this phase.

Katarina Late Game

Going in first gets you focused and killed at once. Always wait for your team to engage. Once you see the enemy's key CC used, jump in and clear them out with your Ult.

Katarina Teamfights

Track your dagger drops and cooldown resets as you move across the fight. A single kill or assist cuts all your cooldowns by 15 seconds, so start with a squishy target you can reliably finish.

⚠️ Common Mistakes

Engaging first while the enemy still holds their CC

Spinning your Ult while the enemy still has stuns or knock-ups available is very dangerous. You get interrupted at once and die without doing anything. Let your frontline engage, then jump in after the enemy has spent their CC and look for chain kills.

Katarina Combos

Basic Engage

Throw a dagger with Skill 1, dash in with Skill 3, drop another with Skill 2, then spin up Ult.

Ult

Katarina Skills

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 55 magic damage (55 + 100% bonus AD + 34.5%AP).

Skill 1

Bouncing Blade

⏳ 10s

Throws a Dagger, dealing 75 magic damage (75 + 30%AP) 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.

Details	LVL 1	LVL 2	LVL 3	LVL 4
Cooldown	10	9	8	7
Base Damage	75	115	155	195

Skill 2

Preparation

⏳ 14s

Tosses a Dagger in the air and hastes Katarina by 50%.

Details	LVL 1	LVL 2	LVL 3	LVL 4
Cooldown	14	13	12	11
MS	50%	60%	70%	80%

Skill 3

Shunpo

⏳ 11s

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

Picking up a Dagger greatly reduces the Cooldown of Shunpo.

Details	LVL 1	LVL 2	LVL 3	LVL 4
Cooldown	11	10	9	8
Base Damage	20	50	80	110

Ult

Death Lotus

⏳ 60s

Rapidly throws 20 blades over 2.6 second(s) at the 3 nearest enemy champions, each blade dealing 20 magic damage. The flurry of blades deals up to 400 magic damage (400 + 260% bonus AD + 290%AP) and applies 60% Grievous Wounds on-hit. Katarina can move while throwing blades.

Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.

Details	LVL 1	LVL 2	LVL 3
Cooldown	60	50	40
Base Damage	400	600	800

Katarina Base Stats

League of Legends: Wild Rift (China) official champion library (patch 7.3, as of 2026-09-23), with the official global patch notes applied up to 7.3a

Official ratings

Damage3/3

Survivability1/3

Utility1/3

Difficulty3/3

A three-step guide set by the official champion library. For difficulty, a higher number means harder to play.

Level1

Health660LV15 2564

Attack Damage58LV15 108.4

Armor34LV15 104

Magic Resist38LV15 66

Movement Speed345

Compare with every champion Open the damage calculator at LV1

Critical damage is 200% for every champion. These figures exclude items and runes.

Katarina Patch History

Katarina

Patch 7.0c

Buff

Base Stats

Base AR30 → 34

Shunpo

Cooldown14/12/10/8s → 11/10/9/8s

Our take

Katarina performed well at the top of the ladder but stayed awkward for most players, and the Quicksilver Enchant change had made that worse. Four more base AR makes early contact with AD champions survivable. Shunpo comes back 3s sooner at rank 1, 2s at rank 2 and 1s at rank 3, so she can dive in and slip back out repeatedly long before the ability is maxed. That frees her from a strict skill order and lets her start snowballing on mobility from the early game.