How to win lane as Katarina against Anivia · 54.07% win rate over 1,707 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Katarina | Level 1 your free Q poke beats the slowest-moving mage in the game with a tiny mana pool. |
| Level 2 | Katarina | Level 2 Q>W trades chunk her while Flash Frost is easily strafed on approach. |
| Level 3 | Katarina | Level 3 Shunpo blinks over Crystallize, deleting her entire anti-dive plan. |
| Levels 4-5 | Katarina | Levels 4-5 baiting one Flash Frost gives you a full free combo on a defenseless bird. |
| Level 6 | Katarina | Level 6 you burst her to egg and break it on the spot with dagger resets. |
| First item | Katarina | First item Ludens/Lich one-rotates her while she's still stacking RoA/Seraph's. |
| Two+ items | Katarina | At 2+ items she must stand in Glacial Storm to matter — a stationary target you execute twice. |
Levels 1-2 poke her relentlessly with Bouncing Blade — Anivia's base movespeed is terrible and her Q is one of the slowest projectiles in the game, so you win every short trade by simply strafing. She has almost no waveclear pre-6, so shove her under tower with Q+W and make her choose between losing CS and eating dagger trades. Watch mana: every Flash Frost she throws at you and misses is a huge chunk of her tiny early pool. Your only real risk is facechecking a point-blank Q>E combo, so keep the stun's travel time between you.
The full Katarina vs Anivia report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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