Katarina vs Akali

⇄ ChangeYOU · MID

⇄ ChangeENEMY · MID

VS

Heavily unfavoredPre-6 HardPost-6 HardTake Ignite

How to play it

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Her shroud (W) + E

Only trade when her W (shroud) and E are down. While she's in shroud, predict her Q and land yours through the minions to catch her.

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Farm it out

This is a losing lane: farm as well as you can and scale. Don't force trades you can't win.

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Side lane

On the side lane, avoid interaction and take waves under turret: you don't out-trade her, so don't force it even once the map opens up.

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Never try to 1v1 her, even with a lead: as AP Kat you don't out-duel her, and it's risky even when ahead.

Runes

DOMINATION

PRECISION

SHARDS

Spells

FLASH

IGNITE

Items

Start

Core

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16.14 Emerald+ - 51% WR - 1.5k games

Skill order

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	Q			Q	Q		Q	Q
			W											W	W		W	W
		E							E	E		E	E
						R					R					R

MAXQ→E→W

Katarina vs Akali in Mid lane is a hard lane on patch 26.17. The one thing to respect: her shroud (W), only trade when it and her E are down.

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