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Katarina

This article covers how Katarina plays in League of Legends Arena: interactions, bugs and patch changes. Builds and statistics are on Katarina's ArenaSweats Pages build.

Overview

Arena changes

  • I: Cooldown reduction changed to 15 seconds.
  • I: Dagger bonus AD ratio changed to 100% bonus AD.
  • Q: Base damage changed to 80 to 300.
  • Q: AP ratio changed to 60% AP.
  • E: Base damage changed to 60 to 120.
  • E: AD ratio changed to 50% AD.
  • E: AP ratio changed to 40% AP.
  • R: Base damage per dagger changed to 50 to 75 3.
  • R: AP ratio per dagger changed to 22% AP.2

ArenaSweats stats

2026 Season 3 Act 2, all regions
Challenger tierArenaSweats tierChallenger
Top 3 %
50.5%
Avg place
3.48
Pick %
11.35%
Ban %
4.71%
Games
206,328

Most picked augments

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Tips

Interactions

  • With some omnivamp, Puppeteer can rapidly reduce its cooldown through Katarina's ability resets and trigger on each Death Lotus.8
  • Death Lotus applies on-attack effects.910
  • Marksmage does not trigger on Death Lotus.11
  • Katarina's ultimate can critically strike with Vulnerability or Jeweled Gauntlet.1213
  • An autocast combination using Energetic, Runecarver, Hexbolt, Lightning Rod, Firefox, Wildfire and Quantum Computing can loop on Katarina.1415
  • With Chauffeur and Mystic Punch, Katarina can use E to disconnect, move around, and be pulled around while channeling Death Lotus.16
  • Katarina's Dance of Voracity can offer an augment tier upgrade alongside new augments.1718
  • The augment Killing Time does not count damage from Death Lotus until its channel ends.19

Bugs

  • With Hive Mind, Katarina's ultimate can deal very little damage with its bees; one use with at least 15 bees dealt about 100 damage.20
  • Katarina's ultimate sometimes cancels with Chauffeur.21
  • Despoil does not gain stacks from blinks such as Katarina's E.22
  • Katarina's ultimate can give Titan's Resolve only one stack even when it hits multiple opponents.23

History

  • Since patch 26.9, Katarina's Dance of Voracity offers augment tier-ups alongside new augments.18
  • Katarina's ultimate no longer fully resets on takedown.24
  • Katarina's ultimate previously worked with Slow and Steady, but the interaction later dealt very little damage.25
Riot patch notes that name Katarina, newest first
PatchDateChanges
26.21
  • R - Death Lotus
  • On-Hit Ratio: 20 / 25 / 30% ⇒ 25% flat
  • Ability Power Ratio per Dagger: 26% ⇒ 35%26
26.10
  • Passive refund on takedown reduced from 75s ⇒ 15s27
25.188x2 duos
  • Passive Refund: 30s ⇒ 75s
  • Q Damage: 80-220(+40%AP) ⇒ 80-300(+65%AP)
  • E Damage: 20-60(+0.25AP%AP)(+.40TAD) ⇒ 40-120(+0.40%AP)(+.40TAD)28
25.098x2 duos
  • Passive Cooldown Reset: 20 ⇒ 30
  • Passive Bonus AD Ratio: 80% ⇒ 100%
  • Q AP Ratio: 50% ⇒ 60%29
25.078x2 duos
  • Gain 5 rerolls.30

Earlier formats

  • Patch 25.18 adjusted Katarina's passive to fully reset her ultimate on takedown, alongside changes to her basic abilities.31 8x2 duos
  • One Death Lotus sometimes gave Katarina over 1,000 ability power with Ethereal Weapon and Edge of Duality.32 8x2 duos
  • Fulmination worked with Death Lotus, and its cooldown depended partly on the dagger effects.33 8x2 duos
  • Hamstringer worked with the augment that makes spells critically strike.34 8x2 duos
  • During the eight-teams-of-two format, Panic Room did not interrupt Death Lotus when it triggered during the channel, even if Katarina died or teleported away.353637 8x2 duos
  • During the eight-teams-of-two format, attack speed and attack damage builds could gain substantial scaling from anvils, increasing Death Lotus's damage.38 8x2 duos
  • During the eight-teams-of-two format, Ethereal Weapon could work well on Katarina alongside items such as Nashor's Tooth and Wit’s End.39 8x2 duos
  • During the eight-teams-of-two format, Katarina's ultimate could trigger Voltaic Cyclosword four times, plus once more after using E and getting two daggers.40 8x2 duos
  • During the eight-teams-of-two format, Katarina's ultimate applied grievous wounds.414243 8x2 duos
  • During the eight-teams-of-two format, Death Lotus applied Statikk Shiv stacks at full effectiveness almost instantly.444546 8x2 duos
  • During the eight-teams-of-two format, Fan the Hammer could trigger Statikk Shiv through Death Lotus.454647 8x2 duos
  • During the eight-teams-of-two format, Death Lotus triggered Statikk Shiv's five attacks at full effectiveness almost instantly, and the item could bounce damage between the opponents.484445 8x2 duos
  • During the eight-teams-of-two format, Statikk Shiv could deal high damage through Katarina's ultimate because its damage was not reduced by on-hit reducers.4948 8x2 duos

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    League WikiLeague of Legends Wiki, Module:MapChanges/data/ar, revision 4091873

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    Arena changes (wiki): I: Cooldown reduction changed to 15 seconds. I: Dagger bonus AD ratio changed to 100% bonus AD. Q: Base damage changed to 80 to 300. Q: AP ratio changed to 60% AP. E: Base damage changed to 60 to 120. E: AD ratio changed to 50% AD. E: AP ratio changed to 40% AP. R: Base damage
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    RiotRiot patch notes: League of Legends Patch 26.9 Notes > Arena > New Fame Track

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    Reworked Guests of Honor Swain: Demonic Ascension: Now, when half the lobby is eliminated the remaining teams gain a prismatic stat anvil. Katarina: Dance of Voracity: Augment tier ups are offered alongside new augments.
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    RiotRiot patch notes: League of Legends Patch 26.21 Notes > Arena > Champions

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    Katarina R - Death Lotus On-Hit Ratio: 20 / 25 / 30% ⇒ 25% flat Ability Power Ratio per Dagger: 26% ⇒ 35%
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    RiotRiot patch notes: League of Legends Patch 26.10 Notes > Arena > Champions

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    Katarina Passive refund on takedown reduced from 75s ⇒ 15s
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    RiotRiot patch notes: Patch 25.18 Notes > Arena > Champions (Arena)

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    Katarina Passive Refund: 30s ⇒ 75s Q Damage: 80-220(+40%AP) ⇒ 80-300(+65%AP) E Damage: 20-60(+0.25AP%AP)(+.40TAD) ⇒ 40-120(+0.40%AP)(+.40TAD)
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    RiotRiot patch notes: Patch 25.09 Notes > Arena > Champions

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    Katarina Passive Cooldown Reset: 20 ⇒ 30 Passive Bonus AD Ratio: 80% ⇒ 100% Q AP Ratio: 50% ⇒ 60%
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    RiotRiot patch notes: Patch 25.07 Notes > Arena > New Guests of Honor for Round 2

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    Katarina Gain 5 rerolls.
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    RiotRiot patch notes: Patch 25.18 Notes > Arena > Champions (Arena)

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    Katarina struggles in a gamemode with only 2 opponents, so we're adjusting her passive to fully reset her ultimate while giving her some more force behind her basic abilities.
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