Vayne vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Vayne
based on 7,118 Vayne vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Katarina Counter Build
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Core Vayne Items
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Katarina
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Advice to Win Against Katarina
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.
Vayne vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some critical Vayne vs. Katarina matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Katarina..
Vayne typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Katarina. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vayne and Katarina
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Who is Better, Vayne or Katarina?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vayne usually wins when trying to fight Katarina, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes a good counter to Katarina.
While Vayne does have a higher win rate than Katarina, when facing one another, Vayne also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Vayne into Katarinaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vayne has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Katarina matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a good counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vayne against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne to counter Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Katarina. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Vayne versus Katarina build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Vayne incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Katarina than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vayne boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Katarina as Vayne, Vayne players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Vayne vs Katarina battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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