How to win lane as Zed against Katarina · 48.61% win rate over 6,700 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Zed | Zed favoured L1: Katarina has no shield or sustain to contest your shove and poke. |
| Level 2 | Zed | Zed favoured L2: you chunk her with W-Q whenever her Q dagger is on cooldown. |
| Level 3 | Zed | Zed favoured L3: you deny her the dagger resets she needs and out-trade freely. |
| Levels 4-5 | Zed | Zed favoured L4-5: perma-shove keeps her farming under tower with no snowball. |
| Level 6 | Zed | Zed favoured L6: Death Mark bursts her before she can safely channel Death Lotus. |
| First item | Zed | Zed favoured 1st item: lethality one-combos her before resets get rolling. |
| Two+ items | Katarina | Katarina favoured 2+ items: full-build reset chains and Death Lotus out-snowball your single R in the late brawl. |
L1-2 is all yours. Katarina has no sustain or shield, so shove her in, poke with W-Q every time her dagger's down, and punish her when she steps to a dagger for a reset. Deny her CS and resets now to keep her from ever snowballing.
The full Zed 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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