Katarina
Hardest matchups for Katarina in Mid (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Heimerdinger, 
Singed, 
Mordekaiser. Easiest: 
Ezreal, 
Lucian, 
Smolder.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into KatarinaOn the pro tier list
Katarina on patch 16.22
- Mid50.5%#34 of 91B14,233 games
- Bot50.3%#30 of 51B1,599 games
- steady since 16.21
Katarina’s main role on patch 16.22 is Mid: a 50.5% win rate across 14,233 Emerald games, #34 of 91 Mid champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 5.7% of games. Katarina is also played Bot: a 50.3% win rate across 1,599 games, #30 of 51. Since patch 16.21, Katarina Mid has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.3 points across 87,048 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid86% of its games | B | 50.5%50.5% raw ±0.5 | 43,619 | 6.2%10.0% banned | 51.9%44.9% first time |
| Bot11% of its games | A | 50.7%50.8% raw ±1.3 | 5,688 | 0.8%10.0% banned | 51.5%46.9% first time |
| Top2% of its games | B | 50.4%51.0% raw ±3.4 | 832 | 0.1%10.0% banned | 51.7%47.5% first time |
| Support1% of its games | too few games | 47.6%39.3% raw ±5.9 | 275 | 0.0%10.1% banned | 49.8%46.5% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 48.5%27.3% raw ±12.1 | 66 | 0.0%10.0% banned | 50.8%46.6% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Katarina’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Katarina, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Katarina
Lane leads and team bans
What Katarina’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Katarina than the other team does in the same games (293,484 games). The other team banned before Katarina was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Katarina was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Katarina is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- AP burst
53.5%29,054 games - On-hit
50.9%13,001 games - AP sustained
49.7%327 games - AD bruiser
51.5%40 games - Crit
52.2%9 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Katarina does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
46,718 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Ignite50.8% · 44,050 games
ElectrocuteDomination + Precision · 51.7%
Sudden Impact · Grisly Mementos · Relentless Hunter · Triumph · Coup de GraceShards: Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Doran's Ring + Health Potion · 54.5%
Key items: Lich Bane → Shadowflame · 52.1%
Boots: Sorcerer's Shoes · 54.0%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Ignite50.8%44,050 games · 94% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Flash + Teleport46.8%1,227 games · 2.6% pick rate · same players: −2.0 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Keystones
- Electrocute + Precision51.7%23,300 games · 50% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Dark Harvest + Precision52.8%1,782 games · 3.8% pick rate · same players: −1.7 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Electrocute + Resolve52.2%2,985 games · 6.4% pick rate · same players: −2.1 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Conqueror + Resolve49.1%6,498 games · 14% pick rate · same players: −3.1 pts vs the usual
Minor runes with Electrocute
- Sudden Impact51.8%100% take it
- Grisly Mementos51.7%89% take it
Sixth Sense52.1%9.8% take it
- Relentless Hunter51.8%98% take it
- Triumph51.7%100% take it
- Coup de Grace51.6%95% take it
Last Stand53.3%3.2% take it
Cut Down53.3%2.0% take it
- Adaptive Force50.7%97% take it
- Attack Speed47.6%3.3% take it
- Adaptive Force50.6%99% take it
- Health51.0%28% take it
- Health Scaling50.5%69% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist49.1%2.4% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Katarina’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Katarina’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Katarina does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Katarina wins 44.5%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.3%. That gap ranks it 27 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 210K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Katarina in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
Katarina has not been played in the major leagues this season.
How much knowing Katarina pays
Players on their Mastery band win 7.8 points more on Katarina than first-timers do: #27 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Katarina players win 52.3%: #97 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 55.6% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
KatarinaDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Katarina ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Locke, Twisted Fate, LeBlanc.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.