Should You Main Katarina? Tier B
Katarina is tier B for maining, around the middle of the game. 10 Challenger and 28 Grandmaster mains across the three major regions, on 689,913 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Katarina scores 5.09 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 5.09 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 10 Challenger · 28 Grandmaster · 260 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 689,913 games played worldwide · 7.49% pick rate · 7.60% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
Katarina on the other hand, right? Decent amount of one tricks in this is actually quite a bit of onetrick and higher MMRs. You we all know a couple of Katarina mains that have made it big as well as streamers, content creators.
Cat Evolved being one of them, right? So and then you also see some pro players that have made it really big in Korea. So Showmaker one of them probably we know.
This is a champion that you can really like learn the game from. So you can get to very high MMR one trick Katarina maining Katarina 10 challengers right now 20 grandmaster players right now very high ban rates 7.6% 6% and 7.5% play rate. So very high pick band comparatively and large showing in or 28 grand masters my bad.
That's quite a few more across three major regions not even not even including China. But yeah this champion's very popular very strong has been for a long time I would recommend. So very good to main.
Kale on the other hand pretty bad to main.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.