Katarina vs Mordekaiser
How to Beat Mordekaiser as Katarina
based on 9,196 Katarina vs Mordekaiser matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Mordekaiser Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Mordekaiser Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Mordekaiser as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Mordekaiser
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 Mordekaiser
Mordekaiser builds up a powerful damage aura when fighting champions, so keep your distance.
Realm of Death will cut you off from your teammates completely. Try to save mobility spells to escape Mordekaiser once inside
Damage he deals can be converted into a large shield, and consumed for health
Katarina vs Mordekaiser Counter Stats
How to Counter Mordekaiser with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some important Katarina against Mordekaiser counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Mordekaiser..
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Mordekaiser. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Mordekaiser
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Who is Better, Katarina or Mordekaiser?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Mordekaiser, with a 45.4% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a poor counter to Mordekaiser.
While Katarina does have a much lower win rate compared to Mordekaiser, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Mordekaiseras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Mordekaiser. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Mordekaiser matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Katarina is a terribly counter to Mordekaiser. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Mordekaiser.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Mordekaiser during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often gets a similar amount of CS as Mordekaiser. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Katarina versus Mordekaiser build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Mordekaiser than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 45.4% when playing against Mordekaiser with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Mordekaiser as Katarina, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Katarina vs Mordekaiser face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Mordekaiser as Katarina are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.