Katarina
Computed from 153,134 ranked Solo/Duo games collected through the Riot API · patch 26.21.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Mid | 49.9% | 5.2% |
| ADC | 51.3% | 0.5% |
Katarina is banned in about 7.1% of games at this tier, one figure for the whole champion since bans happen before roles are picked. What ban rate measures.
Katarina's Mid win rate is 0.1 percentage points below an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Katarina is tracked in 2 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, Mid — its numbers in ADC (0.5% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Katarina's Mid Build
In Emerald+ games on patch 26.21, Katarina's most common Mid setup runs Flash and Ignite with Electrocute, maxes Q first, and builds Lich Bane, Mejai's Soulstealer, and Shadowflame — 50.7% win rate over 49,572 games.
- Summoner spells
Flash + Ignite
50.9%46,294 games - Runes
Electrocute + Precision
51.1%19,231 games - Skill priority Q > E > W 50.9%44,944 games
- Starter
Dark Seal + Refillable Potion
51.7%17,204 games - Boots
Gluttonous Greaves
52.2%5,702 games - First three items
Lich Bane → Mejai's Soulstealer → Shadowflame
77.2%1,089 games
Katarina's Mid Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Games | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 48.5% | 3.6% | 8,386 | 0.19σ | No |
| Bronze | 48.5% | 4.1% | 12,418 | 0.24σ | No |
| Silver | 49.6% | 4.8% | 17,870 | 0.08σ | No |
| Gold | 50.0% | 5.5% | 22,789 | 0.01σ | No |
| Platinum | 50.1% | 5.8% | 25,642 | 0.03σ | No |
| Emerald | 50.5% | 6.0% | 21,018 | 0.11σ | No |
| Diamond | 51.5% | 6.0% | 19,202 | 0.34σ | No |
| Master | 51.4% | 5.7% | 8,800 | 0.29σ | No |
| Grandmaster | 52.3% | 5.3% | 491 | 0.30σ | No |
Katarina's Mid win rate ranges from 48.5% at Iron to 52.3% at Grandmaster across the 9 of 10 ranked tiers with at least 200 games in this role — a 3.8-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.30σ at Grandmaster and 0.19σ at Iron, with neither clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. 1 tier under 200 games not shown.
- Power curve
- Early game
- Threats
- Burst
Curated reads, not measured: how we judge these
Who Counters Katarina in Mid?
Champions That Counter Katarina
| Champion | Win Rate vs Katarina | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Singed |
59.6% | 2.00σ |
Master Yi |
58.8% | 1.84σ |
Malphite |
58.4% | 1.75σ |
Yorick |
57.3% | 1.54σ |
Illaoi |
57.0% | 1.46σ |
Champions Katarina Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Katarina | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Ezreal |
38.3% | 2.45σ |
Twitch |
43.1% | 1.45σ |
Taliyah |
43.7% | 1.32σ |
Aatrox |
44.0% | 1.25σ |
Karma |
44.2% | 1.22σ |
At most five champions are listed in each direction for Katarina: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 3-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them — most matchups you could actually face in a real game simply aren't covered.