Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several valuable Singed versus Katarina matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Katarina..
Singed normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Katarina. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Singed usually wins when trying to fight Katarina, with a 55.6% win rate. Thus, Singed makes a fantastic counter to Katarina.
While Singed does have a much higher win rate than Katarina, when facing one another, Singed also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Singed into Katarina.
Additionally, Singed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Singed vs Katarina matchups, Singed is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Singed is a great counter for Katarina. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Singed against Katarina.
If you would like to truly master Singed in order to counter Katarina during both the lane 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 presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Katarina. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Singed versus Katarina build consist of Force of Nature, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Singed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Katarina than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Singed boasted an average winrate of 55.6% when playing against Katarina with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Katarina as Singed, Singed players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Singed vs Katarina counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.6% win rate overall.
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