Jax with Katarina
How to Synergize Jax and Katarina
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Jax Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Jax vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Jax with Katarina
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Jax in LoL
The Jax 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, Jax sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Jax perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jax is paired with Katarina, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Katarina doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played alongside 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 Jax plays with Katarina on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Jax during team fights.
Synergies between Jax and Katarina
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Is Jax better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top champion pairing for Jax that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Katarina is a below average ally for Jax. By being on the same side as Jax, she decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Jax and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Jax. That means you need to be cautious when finding Katarina teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Jax and Katarina together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jax in order to synergize with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Jax and Katarina synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Jax used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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