How to win lane as Taliyah against Katarina · 42.03% win rate over 928 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Taliyah | Katarina has weak waveclear and low range; your Q pokes her every time she steps to farm. |
| Level 2 | Taliyah | You out-range her daggers and zone her off the wave before she stacks damage. |
| Level 3 | Taliyah | Worked-ground Q shoves and denies CS, and W-E knocks her out of a Shunpo all-in. |
| Levels 4-5 | Taliyah | Every time she E's to a dagger you W-E her for a knockup that breaks the reset chain. |
| Level 6 | Taliyah | Your W knockup and E hard-interrupt Death Lotus, so her ult all-in loses to your combo. |
| First item | Taliyah | With Zhonya's timing and your CC you cancel her reset windows and deny her snowball kills. |
| Two+ items | Taliyah | Your peel-W, E, and Weaver's Wall-shuts down her all-in and keeps her off resets. |
Katarina has weak waveclear and short range, so your Q pokes her every time she steps to farm and you out-range her daggers at levels 1-2, zoning her off the wave before she stacks any damage-respect that a good Kat wins games by roaming, so ping her missing.
The full Taliyah vs Katarina 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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