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Katarina
GameplayKatarina is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Abilities
- Voracity's cooldown reduction will still take effect even after Katarina dies.
- The Dagger's area of effect indicator is displayed even before it lands, although Katarina may not slash until it has. This can be targeted by Shunpo.
- Daggers will still deal damage but not apply on-hit effects if dodged. They cannot be blocked nor can they be missed while Katarina is blinded.
- Single-use on-hit effects, such as Spellblade, will apply to the closest target to Katarina when she uses a Dagger.
- Bouncing Blade will not be destroyed in-flight if the target dies before reaching them but it will on clones that expire.
- If the Dagger's intended landing position is inside terrain it will instead land at the closest spot that isn't inside terrain.
- If the target becomes untargetable, dies, or is too far away or no longer in sight during the cast time, this ability will cancel but does not go on cooldown nor pay its cost (if applicable).
- Shunpo can be used on any unit except structures and wards.
- Shunpo can be cast on Daggers that haven't landed yet.
- If Katarina Shunpo's on an ally, any attack command she is given during its cast time will be negated, and every movement command will be delayed by 1 second (starting at the start of the cast time).
- Shunpo should be an instant ability but it has extra logic to consider which makes it have a short cast time before blinking.
- Flash can be used during cast time but it will not cancel the blink.
- If the target is very close to a wall and Katarina targets Shunpo behind the target, she can blink over the wall.
- Shunpo will still deal damage but not apply on-hit effects if dodged. It cannot be blocked nor can it be missed while Katarina is blinded.
- Shunpo does not require the enemy to be within targeting range to damage them. It only requires them to be within the max range around a unit that Shunpo allows them to blink to.
| Type | Cast time | |
|---|---|---|
| Attacking | Disabled | |
| Abilities | Disabled | |
| Movement | Disabled | |
| Items | Usable |  Shurelya's Battlesong  Turbo Chemtank  Youmuu's Ghostblade  Gargoyle Stoneplate  Randuin's Omen
|
| Disabled | All the other item-actives are disabled | |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Consumables | Usable | |
| Spells | Usable |  Barrier  Clarity  Cleanse  Exhaust  Ghost  Heal  Ignite  Smite  Flash
|
| Disabled |  Teleport  Recall  Hexflash
| |
| Interrupted by | N/A | |
| Interrupted by |  Resurrection
| |
- An alternate way of writing the formula for the bonus AD ratio is 16% × (1 + 0.8 total attack speed) bonus AD.
- At level 6, Katarina has a minimum of 0.729 attack speed (bar potential reduction from attack speed slows).
- The minimum physical damage per dagger is 25.33% bonus AD.
- At level 6, Katarina has a minimum of 0.729 attack speed (bar potential reduction from
- In addition to already revealing herself, Katarina will reveal her location (450 radius) for 4.5 seconds every time she throws a dagger at an enemy while the enemy team does not otherwise have vision of her.(bug)
- Because of this, the vision on Katarina's location will persist for up-to 4.5 seconds after the channel ends.
- Death Lotus will not end if no enemies remain in range.
- Spell shield will block and be consumed by only one dagger.
- Each dagger counts as a separate hit for effects such as Conqueror, Electrocute, and Eclipse's Ever Rising Moon.
- The following table refers for interactions while Katarina is channeling:
| Type | Channel | |
|---|---|---|
| Attacking | Disabled in the first and last 0.25 seconds of channel, otherwise, interrupts. | |
| Abilities | Interrupts | |
| Movement | Disabled in the first and last 0.25 seconds of channel, otherwise, interrupts. | |
| Items | Usable | Shurelya's Battlesong Turbo Chemtank Youmuu's Ghostblade Gargoyle Stoneplate Randuin's Omen
|
| Disabled |  Hextech Rocketbelt  Everfrost  Prowler's Claw  Stridebreaker  Ironspike Whip  Goredrinker
| |
| Interrupted by | All item-actives not specified above interrupt | |
| Consumables | Usable | |
| Spells | Usable | Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite
|
| Disabled | Recall Hexflash
| |
| Interrupted by | Flash Teleport
| |
| Interrupted by |  Cast-inhibiting effects
| |
- Trying to cast a disabled active (excluding Hextech Rocketbelt) will buffer it to cast at the completion of the channel.
- The ability will light up once an enemy champions gets into range, even if not visible, revealing they're nearby.
Champion skins
- This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Katarina (Collection).
Decisive in judgment and lethal in combat, Katarina is a Noxian assassin of the highest caliber. Eldest daughter to the legendary General Du Couteau, she made her talents known with swift kills against unsuspecting enemies. Her fiery ambition has driven her to pursue heavily-guarded targets, even at the risk of endangering her allies—but no matter the mission, Katarina will not hesitate to execute her duty amid a whirlwind of serrated daggers.
Tara Platt
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Patch history
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 672 from 602.
- Health growth increased to 108 from 94.
- Armor growth increased to 4.7 from 3.5.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
- Death Lotus
- Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 50% from 60%.
- Stats
- Movement speed reduced to 335 from 340.
- Death Lotus
- New Effect: Each instance of damage dealt now counts as a separate hit for effects such as Conqueror, Electrocute, and Eclipse.
- New Effect: Each instance of damage dealt now counts as a separate hit for effects such as
- Death Lotus
- On-hit modifier increased to 25 / 30 / 35% from 25% at all ranks.
- Bonus AD ratio per dagger increased to 16% bonus AD from 15%.
- Attack speed ratio per dagger increased to 12.8% total attack speed from 9.9%.
- Bug Fix: Tooltip now properly states that the ability also triggers on-attack effects.
- Death Lotus
- Bug Fix: Now properly modifies damage dealt by Kraken Slayer's Bring It Down.
- Bug Fix: Now properly modifies damage dealt by
- Stats
- Base armor increased to 28 from 27.88.
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
- Death Lotus
- Bug Fix: No longer stacks Grievous Wounds effects.
- Bug Fix: No longer stacks
- Voracity
- New Effect: Daggers now apply on-hit effects against all champions struck.
- Shunpo
- New Effect: Now applies on-hit effects.
- Death Lotus
- New Effect: Each dagger now applies on-hit effects at 25% effectiveness.
- Removed: No longer deals 22% bonus AD magic damage per dagger.
- New Effect: Now deals 15% bonus AD (+ 9.9% attack speed) physical damage per dagger.
- Voracity
- Bonus AD ratio reduced to 75% bonus AD from 100%.
- Voracity
- AP ratio reduced to 55 / 66 / 77 / 88% (based on level) AP from 55 / 70 / 85 / 100% (based on level) AP.
- Sinister Steel
- Bug Fix: Daggers no longer gain 2 stacks of Conqueror per target hit; now properly gains 2 stacks per cast.
- Bug Fix: Daggers no longer gain 2 stacks of
- Shunpo
- Bug Fix: No longer attempts to basic attack her last target after Shunpo, unless they're already in attack range.
- Shunpo
- Bug Fix: Using it to kill a target no longer makes her unresponsive for a few moments.
- Shunpo
- Bug Fix: If she drops a dagger near a wall and then casts Shunpo so that she can blink to the other side of the wall, she now properly gets a reset on the ability.
- Shunpo
- Bug Fix: Now properly counts towards triggering Electrocute and Phase Rush and is usable in Mordekaiser's Realm of Death.
- Bug Fix: Now properly counts towards triggering
- Death Lotus
- Healing reduction increased to 60% from 40%.
- Death Lotus
- New Effect: Now triggers effects that are triggered by DoT AoE abilities.
- General
- Base run animation updated.
- Fast run animation updated.
- Movement stop animation updated.
- Warring Kingdoms Katarina
- Shunpo
- Undocumented: Now has more flower visual effects on Shunpo.
- Sandstorm Katarina
- Sinister Steel
- Undocumented: Now has more sand visual effects on dagger pick up.
- Shunpo
- Cast time changed to (0.15 seconds after teleporting (Katarina now teleports immediately upon pressing E)) from (0.075 seconds before teleporting and 0.075 seconds after teleporting).
- New Effect: Can now buffer Hextech Gunblade's active to fire after Shunpo's cast time completes.
- Shunpo
- Bug Fix: Killing an unit with Shunpo will no longer lock out your buffered abilities or basic attack.
- Death Lotus
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it could not be cast if enemies in range could not be seen.
- Bug Fix: Can now correctly ping her Death Lotus if no valid targets are nearby.
- Voracity
- Base dagger damage reduced to 68 − 240 (based on level) from 75 − 287 (based on level).
- Bouncing Blade
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
- Shunpo
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
- Shunpo
- Base damage reduced to 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 from 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 602 from 590.
- Health growth increased to 94 from 82.
- General
- Bug Fix: Base skin and all of her other skins' SFX have been restored and are no longer quiet.
- Death Sworn Katarina
- Bug Fix: Smoke VFX on her daggers during her Recall no longer appear below the ground.
- Bug Fix: Smoke VFX on her daggers during her
- Slay Belle Katarina
- Voracity
- Bug Fix: No longer gets stuck in her recall animation if she uses Voracity right before beginning her recall.
- Shunpo
- Cooldown increased to 14 / 12.5 / 11 / 9.5 / 8 seconds from 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8.
- General
- Bug Fix: Intermediate bot now has a keystone mastery.
- Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32.1 from 34.1.
- Shunpo
- AD ratio reduced to 50% AD from 65% AD.
- Voracity
- Base damage changed to 75 − 287 (based on level) from 75 − 285 (based on level).
- Preparation
- Shunpo
- Bug Fix: If Katarina Shunpo's to an ally or a dagger, Shunpo's damage now properly transfers to the nearest minion or jungle monster if no enemy champions are in range.
- Death Lotus
- Bug Fix: Icon no longer lights up while dead when enemies walk near her corpse.
- General
- Bug Fix: Warring Kingdom Katarina's visual effects have been adjusted to re-add some of the flair lost in her pre-season update.
- Shunpo
- Movement commands are canceled if Shunpo targets a plant or enemy champion.
- General
- New ability icons.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 590 from 510.
- Health growth reduced to 82 from 83.
- Base health regeneration increased to 7.5 from 4.5.
- Health regeneration growth increased to 0.7 from 0.55.
- Base armor increased to 27.88 from 26.88.
- Base magic resistance increased to 34.1 from 32.1.
- Base movement speed reduced to 340 from 345.
- Voracity
- New Effect - Flourish: Catching or picking up one of her fallen Daggers causes Katarina to flourish it, dealing 75 − 285 (based on level) 100% bonus AD) 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 (based on level)% AP) magic damage to nearby enemies, as well as refunding 78 / 84 / 90 / 96 (based on level)% of Shunpo's cooldown.
- Range: 340
- New Effect -
- Bouncing Blade
- Cooldown changed to 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 seconds from 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8 seconds.
- Base damage changed to 75 / 105 / 135 / 165 / 195 from 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160.
- AP ratio reduced to 30% AP from 45% AP.
- Range reduced to 625 from 675.
- Targets hit reduced to 3 from 4.
- New Effect: After bouncing, the Dagger falls to the ground on the opposite side from where it struck the first target for 4 seconds, getting there in the same amount of time regardless of how many times it bounces.
- Removed: On-hit effect.
- Preparation (new W)
- New Effect: Katarina tosses a Dagger up in the air and gains 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90% movement speed that decays over 1.25 seconds. After a 1.25 seconds delay, the Dagger hits the ground.
- Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 seconds
- Shunpo
- Cooldown changed to 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8 seconds from 12 / 10.5 / 9 / 7.5 / 6.
- Base damage reduced to 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 from 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160.
- New Effect: Now scales with 65% AD.
- Range increased to 725 from 700.
- New Effect: Can target Daggers.
- New Effect: If she targets an ally or dagger, she will deal Shunpo's damage to the nearest enemy within a radius of her target.
- New Effect: Resets basic attack timer.
- Removed: 15% damage reduction.
- Removed: Targeting wards.
- Death Lotus
- Ticks increased to 15 from 10. Duration unchanged at 2.5 seconds.
- Base damage per blade reduced to 25 / 37.5 / 50 + 22% bonus AD + 19% AP from 35 / 55 / 75 + 37.5% bonus AD + 25% AP.
- Maximum potential damage to single target changed to 375 / 562.5 / 750 + 330% bonus AD + 285% AP from 350 / 550 / 750 + 375% bonus AD) + 250% AP.
- New Effect: Cannot be cancelled by movement and basic attack commands in the first and last 0.25 seconds of channeling.
- New Effect: Maximum range indicator visible to all players.
Trivia
- Katarina's name comes from Greek Αἰκατερίνα/η (Akaterine).
- Du Couteau (her family name) is French for "of the knife".
- She shared her namesake with Caitlyn and Kai'Sa.
- She may have been inspired by Katherina from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare.
- Shunpo (pronounced: [ɕʉ͍̃mpo] shoom-poh) comes from Sino-Japanese 瞬歩 "blink step".
- A framed portrait of Katarina can be seen in the game's Mac Version trailer.
- Katarina - Cassiopeia is one of seven pairs of sibling champions (the others being Kayle - Morgana, Garen - Lux, Nasus - Renekton, Yasuo - Yone, Darius - Draven, and Vi - Jinx).
- Katarina's dance references Napoleon Dynamite, via one of its portions.
- Voracity's old icon was directly edited from her second Original splash art.
- Katarina is one of few champions to feature two 'Champion Spotlights' due to significant gameplay changes (the others being Ezreal, Karma, Lee Sin, and Sivir).
- Katarina is one of the first champions to have one skin for each of the three big annual events of the year - Lunar Revel, Harrowing and Snowdown Showdown. She and Nidalee received their Warring Kingdoms as the skin that gave them this distinction in 2015.
- The other one is Jinx when she received Ambitious Elf Jinx in 2017.
- Annie almost became another champion that fulfilled the criteria after Panda Annie was released in 2013. However, Frostfire Annie was not released during the Snowdown Showdown event.
- The other one is
- A functional real-life replica of Katarina's Daggers was crafted in an episode of YouTube series Man At Arms: Reforged.
- This video can be viewed here.
- There are also videos where the following are crafted:
- This video can be viewed here.
See also
| Cancelled Champions | |
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