Gwen with Katarina
How to Synergize Gwen and Katarina
based on 2,356 Gwen with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Katarina
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her 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.
Gwen Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen 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, Gwen sees a large worsening 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 Gwen perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gwen is paired with Katarina, she observes a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Katarina does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Katarina on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Gwen in teamfights.
Synergies between Gwen and Katarina
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Gwen that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very bad companion for Gwen. By playing on the same team as Gwen, she drops their win rate by -3.4% to 44.7%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Gwen and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Gwen. That means Gwen players must be careful when enlisting Katarina comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Gwen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Gwen and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gwen to synergize with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Gwen and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Gwen combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gwen had an average winrate of 44.7% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.7% win rate overall.
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