Corki with Katarina
How to Synergize Corki and Katarina
based on 168 Corki with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Corki Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Corki vs Katarina Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Corki Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Corki and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Corki with Katarina
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
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.
Corki Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Corki in LoL
The Corki 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, Corki sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Corki perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Corki is an ally to Katarina, he observes a measurable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Katarina does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Corki is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Corki plays with Katarina on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Corki in teamfights.
Synergies between Corki and Katarina
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Corki better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best ally for Corki that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Katarina is a very typical companion for Corki. By playing on the same side as Corki, she lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Corki and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Corki. That means Corki players must be very careful when enlisting Katarina comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Corki and Katarina together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Corki
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Corki Players
How We Calculated Our Corki Katarina Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Corki to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Corki and Katarina synergy build consist of Muramana, Malignance, and Eclipse. When Corki included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other common builds. In fact, Corki boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
If you need to see Corki and Katarina cooperations tips and builds for a a distinct player tier, feel free to choose one from the selection menu above. By default, the statistics and tips and suggestions shown are computed using all rounds finished with these champions.