Dr. Mundo with Katarina
How to Synergize Dr. Mundo and Katarina
based on 2,690 Dr. Mundo with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Dr. Mundo Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Dr. Mundo vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Dr. Mundo and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Dr. Mundo with Katarina
Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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.
Dr. Mundo Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Dr. Mundo in LoL
The Dr. Mundo 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, Dr. Mundo sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Dr. Mundo perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Dr. Mundo plays on the same team as Katarina, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Katarina does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Dr. Mundo is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Dr. Mundo plays with Katarina on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Dr. Mundo in team fights.
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Is Dr. Mundo better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal ally for Dr. Mundo that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a below average companion for Dr. Mundo. By being on the same team as Dr. Mundo, she decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 49.5%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Dr. Mundo and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Dr. Mundo. That means Dr. Mundo players need to be careful when arranging Katarina allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, Dr. Mundo players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Dr. Mundo and Katarina together, you may not be providing your other teammates much support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Dr. Mundo to synergize with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Dr. Mundo and Katarina synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Dr. Mundo combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Dr. Mundo boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Dr. Mundo players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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