Illaoi with Katarina
How to Synergize Illaoi and Katarina
based on 2,408 Illaoi with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Katarina
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Illaoi perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Katarina, she observes a little decrease in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Katarina doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Katarina on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Illaoi in team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Katarina
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best companion for Illaoi that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Katarina is a very typical companion for Illaoi. By locking into the same side as Illaoi, she improves their win rate by 0.6% to 50.2%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Illaoi and Katarina that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means you need to be careful when finding Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Illaoi players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Illaoi and Katarina together, you probably will not be providing your team very much utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to work well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Illaoi and Katarina synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 50.2% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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