Katarina Du Couteau

* Base
* Death Sworn
* Blood Moon
* Project
* Warring Kingdoms

## Summary

Decisive in judgment and lethal in combat, Katarina is a Noxian assassin of the highest caliber. She made her name as the eldest daughter of the legendary General Du Couteau by executing quick kills on unsuspecting enemies. Her fiery ambition has driven her to pursue heavily guarded targets, even at the risk of endangering her allies—but no matter the mission, Katarina will not hesitate to execute her duty amid a whirlwind of serrated daggers.

## Mentality

**Personality**: Trained by her father to be a ruthless murderer since she was a child, Katarina became an extremely cold adult and she spares no effort to achieve her orders with the Assassins Guild. After losing his father's confidence to disobey a direct order, she seeks to repair her mistake anyway.

**Intelligence:** **Genius** (Katarina is a real genius on and off the murderfield. She has extensive tactical military knowledge and is a master strategist. Katarina is a Knox assassin, extremely eloquent, and is recognized as one of the most skilled and deadly blade masters in the world. Katarina has been training assassins almost uninterrupted since she was a child. She wakes up every moment and honed herself into an ultimate weapon, able to use almost anything as a tool of killing. She is good at assassinations. Whether it is assassination or assassination, many of her tasks involve infiltrating strong fortifications to kill high-level officials and military leaders, and can kill entire soldiers' rooms in direct combat before reacting. And kill them. For the entire guard squadron, they only knew their location in a dim room with dim shadows. Throughout the training process, she has mastered the battlefield and environment control knowledge, and can use anything in the environment to catch enemies off guard and keep them balanced, for example, shooting down chandeliers to simultaneously defeat enemies and throw off enemies that are not so. Being hit by the destroying light sources allows her to take advantage of their panic and reduced reflection efficiency. She has a broad understanding of misleading strategies and knows how to mislead opponents’ intuition and deceive their instincts to betray them. This strategy is usually used with Shunbo to induce enemies to attack where she is not or show them Some of her methods of teleportation include teleporting to her sword to trick opponents into thinking that she will teleport, thereby causing them to leave themselves. She is also proficient in teleportation in direct combat. She often teleports to blind spots to catch opponents off guard, and uses the momentum generated by her teleportation to add strength to the blow, so that she can cut through materials that can only be thrown away by the knife... . Her direct combat skills were another assassin trained by Katarina’s father himself, Talon said. She observed that her fighting style is very cruel. Her killer instinct weaves her every blow into a hidden pattern, making her Can pan her seamlessly. Putting thoughts into action, able to conceal subtle movements with magnificent gestures, and able to take advantage of every weakness sent to her. Katarina even managed to regularly play against highly skilled opponents such as Glenn and Tyrone, and Tyrone admitted that she could easily kill him on three different occasions during the battle, instead of killing her as he might... once. Even after being expelled by her father, she was chosen by Swain as his personal assassin).

## Power and Stats

**Powers and Abilities:**

* Base
* Death Sworn
* Blood Moon
* Project
* Warring Kingdoms
**Form Base**: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Regeneration (Rank I), Weapon Mastery (Master knife wielder), Martial Arts (Hand to Hand Combat), Assassin Physiology, Stealth Mastery, Acrobatics, Enhanced Senses, Teleportation, Statistics Amplification (Via Preparation), Power Nullification (Can partially nullify healing and regeneration Via Death Lotus), Preparation, Pain Suppression (Has an extremely high pain tolerance. Was unfazed by having a knife slash across her face and nearly cut out her eye), Resistance to Poison (Has a borderline immunity to a large number of poisons).

**Form Death Sworn**: All Base Form skills with the addition of: Immortality (Types 1 and 7), Non-Physical Interaction.

 **Form Blood Moon**: All abilities as her base plus: Immortality (At least Type 1 and 6), Chaos Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Demon Physiology.

**Form Project**: All Base Form skills with the addition of: Durability Negation (With Plasma Dagger), Energy Manipulation (Plasma Dagger), Cybernetic Enhancement; And exclusion of: Non-Physical Interaction.

**Form Warring Kingdoms**: All Base Form skills with the addition of: Immortality (Type 1 and 2).

## Arsenal

* **Voracity - Passive:** Whenever an enemy champion dies that Katarina has damaged recently, her remaining ability cooldowns are dramatically reduced. If Katarina picks up a Dagger, she uses it to slash through all nearby enemies, dealing magic damage.
* **Bouncing Blade- Q:** Katarina throws a Dagger at the target that then bounces to nearby enemies before ricocheting onto the ground.
* **Preparation - W:** Katarina gains a burst of movement speed, tossing a Dagger into the air directly above herself.
* **Shunpo - E:** Katarina blinks to the target, striking it if its an enemy, or striking the nearest enemy otherwise.
* **Death Lotus - R:** Katarina becomes a flurry of blades, dealing massive magic damage while she channels to the 3 nearest enemy champions.

## Note

1. Credits to the artist **DQ jake** by the Death Sworn form.
2. Credits to the artist **Lau Serpentigena** by the Blood Moon form.

## References (Optional)

1. **Katarina - Biography**.
2. **The Name Of The Blade**.
3. **Message On a Blade's Edge**.