Katarina with Corki
How to Synergize Katarina and Corki
based on 168 Katarina with Corki pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Corki Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Corki Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Corki
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Corki
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 Corki Will Play
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
Katarina Corki Synergy Stats
How to Play with Corki as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Corki synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Corki, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Corki. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Corki helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Corki, she gets a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Corki does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Corki on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Corki.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Corki on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Corki does a poor job of protecting Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Corki
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Corki?
There is no perfect synergy for Katarina that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Corki is a below average ally for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Katarina and Corki that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Corki has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when lining up Corki teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Katarina and Corki together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Corki ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Katarina in order to work well with Corki during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Katarina and Corki synergy build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Corki than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 47.6% helping carry Corki with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina and Corki pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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