Katarina vs Syndra
How to Beat Syndra as Katarina
based on 3,146 Katarina vs Syndra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Syndra Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Syndra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Syndra as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Syndra
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Syndra
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
Katarina vs Syndra Counter Stats
How to Counter Syndra with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some important Katarina vs. Syndra matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between these two champions. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Syndra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Syndra. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Syndra. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Syndra
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Who is Better, Katarina or Syndra?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually wins when facing off against Syndra, with a 54.0% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a great counter to Syndra.
While Katarina does have a much higher win rate than Syndra, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Katarina into Syndraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Syndra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Syndra matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Katarina is a great counter for Syndra. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Syndra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Syndra. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Katarina versus Syndra build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Syndra than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 54.0% when countering Syndra with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Syndra as Katarina, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Katarina vs Syndra counters, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.0% win rate overall.
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