Katarina

A Daughter of Du Couteau

Katarina was born the firstborn of General Du Couteau, and from the start her family expected great things of her. Noxus values proven power over noble birth, and Katarina climbed the ranks the way the empire prefers: by striking down well-protected targets while they still had no idea she was near. She often pushes forward faster than she should, sometimes charging at a target even when her allies end up exposed. Her fellow Noxians admire that boldness, though many also watch her with a certain unease.

Her family makes things more tangled. Her sister Cassiopeia shares her bloodline but not her allegiances, and Katarina’s feud with the Demacian soldier Garen has grown into one of the longest-running grudges of the war between their two nations. Her family ties do nothing to temper her approach. If anything, they make her sharper, because a failure from a Du Couteau never stays hidden for long, and Katarina’s whole standing rests on being the daughter who never falls short.

Blades in Motion

Everything in Katarina’s kit is designed to keep her moving. Bouncing Blade sends a dagger skipping from one nearby enemy to the next before it finally drops, while Preparation hurls a dagger skyward and grants her a sudden surge of speed. She can collect those daggers afterward to shorten Shunpo’s cooldown. Shunpo is a brief blink that strikes whatever enemy it lands beside, so she can flow from one target directly into the next. Her ultimate, Death Lotus, unleashes a storm of blades against the three closest enemy champions at the same moment. Her passive, Voracity, means that every kill on someone she recently damaged refunds much of what she spent. A single takedown can therefore lead into several more before the fight has a chance to settle, the kind of snowballing a Noxian assassin is meant to produce.