Katarina vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Katarina
based on 1,888 Katarina vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Jarvan IV
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Jarvan IV
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Katarina vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some vital Katarina against Jarvan IV matchup stats that may help you realize the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Jarvan IV. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Jarvan IV. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Jarvan IV
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Who is Better, Katarina or Jarvan IV?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually wins when trying to fight Jarvan IV, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a good counter to Jarvan IV.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate compared to Jarvan IV, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Katarina into Jarvan IVas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Jarvan IV matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a good counter to Jarvan IV. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Jarvan IV.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to counter Jarvan IV during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often picks up much more CS as Jarvan IV. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Katarina versus Jarvan IV build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Jarvan IV than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 52.9% battling Jarvan IV with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Jarvan IV as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Katarina vs Jarvan IV battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Jarvan IV as Katarina are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.