Katarina with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Katarina and Caitlyn
based on 12,909 Katarina with Caitlyn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Caitlyn Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Caitlyn
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.
Advice to Understand How Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Katarina Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Katarina sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Caitlyn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Caitlyn helps Katarina perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is paired with Caitlyn, she observes a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Caitlyn doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Caitlyn 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 Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Caitlyn on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Caitlyn does a decent job of covering Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Caitlyn
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no ideal ally for Katarina that will always be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Caitlyn is a very typical companion for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, she raises their win rate by 0.4% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Katarina and Caitlyn that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Caitlyn 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 play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Katarina and Caitlyn together, you may not be granting your team much crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Katarina in order to pair well with Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Katarina and Caitlyn synergy build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Caitlyn than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Caitlyn with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Caitlyn with Katarina are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.