Katarina’s passive is “Insatiability” and ensures that her cooldowns are reduced by 15 seconds when an enemy champion dies that she has dealt damage to in the last 3 seconds. Since none of Katarina’s basic abilities have a cooldown of more than 15 seconds, she receives a reset on all of her basic abilities with every kill or assist. Katarina also deals magic area damage around her whenever she picks up a dagger from the ground. These daggers are placed by her Q and W and are unique in that they have AD, AP and on-hit scaling. Additionally, the damage of the daggers scales with Katarina’s level. The passive is one of the main sources of damage in her kit.

First, we maximize Katarina’s Q “Dancing Blade”. When using the ability, Katarina throws a dagger at the target, which then bounces off up to two nearby enemies and deals magic damage to all enemies hit before falling to the ground behind the original target. This ability also deals damage to multiple enemies, and Katarina gains an additional dagger to trigger the damage from her passive.

Secondly, we maximize Katarina’s E “Lightning Step”, where Katarina teleports to the selected target and strikes if it is an enemy. This ability can also be used to target allies and daggers lying on the ground. In this case, Katarina strikes the nearest opponent if one is within range. The strike deals magic damage and triggers on-hit effects. Katarina can also jump to either side of the selected target, depending on where your mouse cursor is when the ability is activated. It is therefore advisable not to always teleport to the same position, but to vary it so that you are less likely to be hit by CC. In addition, the cooldown of her E is greatly reduced when Katarina picks up a dagger. How much the cooldown is reduced again depends on the level. The E is also an autoattack reset, which means you can perform Attack->E->Attack very quickly.

Finally, we maximize Katarina’s W “Preparation”, in which she throws a dagger directly into the air above her, which lands on the ground after a short delay and can then be used. She also gains additional movement speed for 1.25 seconds.

Katarina’s ultimate ability “Death Lotus” is leveled as usual at levels 6, 11 and 16. When activated, Katarina becomes a whirlwind of blades and deals massive magic and physical damage to the three nearest enemies while channeling. This ability also causes gaping wounds, reducing the healing of enemies hit. It also triggers on-hit effects. The damage of this ult scales with your ability power as well as your attack damage and attack speed, making a wide variety of builds possible. The big disadvantage of the ult is that you have to stand still and can easily be interrupted. So ideally, try to play your opponent with multiple E first in case they can interrupt your ult.

A typical combo for an all-in looks like this:

Without ult: E->Q->W->AA(autoattack)->Collect W dagger->E on Q dagger (hitting the opponent is important here)->AA->AA->E->AA

With Ult: E->Q->W->Ult->W collect dagger->E on Q dagger (hitting opponent is important here)->AA->AA(If E is not ready yet)->E->AA