Blitzcrank with Katarina
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Katarina
based on 5,106 Blitzcrank with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Blitzcrank Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Katarina
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Blitzcrank sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Blitzcrank perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Blitzcrank is an ally to Katarina, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Katarina does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played together with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Blitzcrank plays with Katarina on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Blitzcrank in team fights.
Synergies between Blitzcrank and Katarina
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal ally for Blitzcrank that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Katarina is a not very good companion for Blitzcrank. By locking into the same side as Blitzcrank, she drops their win rate by -1.6% to 50.0%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Blitzcrank and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Blitzcrank. That means you must be careful when lining up Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Blitzcrank and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your side very much utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Blitzcrank to pair well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Blitzcrank and Katarina synergy build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Celestial Opposition. When Blitzcrank incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Blitzcrank and Katarina pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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