Kassadin with Katarina
How to Synergize Kassadin and Katarina
based on 71 Kassadin with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kassadin Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Katarina
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening 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 Kassadin perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin is paired with Katarina, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Katarina does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Katarina on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Kassadin in teamfights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Katarina
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top synergy for Kassadin that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Katarina is a terrible companion for Kassadin. By playing on the same side as Kassadin, she lowers their win rate by -9.2% to 40.8%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Kassadin and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be cautious when finding Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kassadin and Katarina together, you will not be granting your team enough crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kassadin in order to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Kassadin and Katarina synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Lich Bane, and Malignance. When Kassadin bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 40.8% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Kassadin players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 40.8% winrate overall.
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