Akali with Katarina
How to Synergize Akali and Katarina
based on 1,213 Akali with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Akali with Katarina
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Katarina Will Play
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.
Akali Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Akali in LoL
The Akali Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Akali perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali is an ally to Katarina, she gets a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Katarina does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Katarina on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Katarina does a poor job of covering Akali in teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top synergy for Akali that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Katarina is a terrible companion for Akali. By locking into the same team as Akali, she decreases their win rate by -6.0% to 43.1%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Akali and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Katarina allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Akali and Katarina together, you will not be giving your side much crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to work well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Akali and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 43.1% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Akali and Katarina pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.1% winrate overall.
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