Katarina
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · NABans, presence and fearless: Katarina across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 1.0%picked in 26 of 2,647 games
- Ban
- 3.4%67 bans over 1,960 games, against 9.7% in soloQ
Amateur: 2,664 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, NA. SoloQ Master+: 215,636 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Mid.Draft
- How to play itElectrocute, then Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Zhonya's Hourglass: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compMap pressure first: more map pressure than 95% of mid laners.Map pressureDuelist
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftNot enough series to settle it: raw counts only.
What changes in tournaments?
2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Mid.
- DraftPicked less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 0.4%
- SoloQ
- 2.8%
- DraftBanned less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 3.2%
- SoloQ
- 9.7%
Not enough games to judge: win rate, length, keystone, spells, and core.
How to play it?
Electrocute, then Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Zhonya's Hourglass: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesElectrocute54% · 7,598
SpellsFlash + Ignite92% · 13,045
SkillsQnot collected in soloQ- Lich Bane
- Shadowflame
- Zhonya's Hourglass
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Map pressure first: more map pressure than 95% of mid laners.
- Map pressuretop5%4.7 · mid laners: 3.2
- Takes its kills in duelstop13%29% · mid laners: 23%
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other mid laners
What marks it
- Map pressure
- Duelist
Like other mid laners
- Absorbs damage
- Team damage
What it is not
- Few teamfights
- Carries its own kills
- Little CC
- No poke
- No split-push
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 78 in lane, 83 in mid game and 25 in late game, out of 100 mid laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, ahead of 83% of mid laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among mid laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 78 of 100 among mid laners575 · median 528
- Damage in mid game · rank 83 of 100 among mid laners983 · median 899
- Damage in late game · rank 25 of 100 among mid laners1,095 · median 1,179
- Gold at 15 min · rank 76 of 100 among mid laners+213 · median +25
- Gold at 20 min · rank 83 of 100 among mid laners+482 · median +71
- Map pressure · rank 95 of 100 among mid laners4.7 · median 3.2
- Absorbs damage · rank 42 of 100 among mid laners430 · median 489
- Plays teamfights · rank 14 of 100 among mid laners51% · median 55%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 88 of 100 among mid laners29% · median 23%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 2 of 100 among mid lanersrank 2 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 2 of 100 among mid laners0 · median 0.7
- Team damage · rank 74 of 100 among mid laners24% · median 21%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
No pair measured in amateur play on this side.
Ban it or pick it?
Not enough series to settle it: raw counts only.
Pick rate as Mid
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+2.8%11,998 picks of 431,269ban 9.7% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments0.4%15 picks of 3,686ban 3.2% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.0%0 picks of 2,204bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
6.0% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as MidNot enough series yet: published from 30.