Katarina with Darius
How to Synergize Katarina and Darius
based on 4,904 Katarina with Darius pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Darius
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Katarina Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Darius helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is an ally to Darius, she observes a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Darius provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Darius.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Darius on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Darius does a decent job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Darius
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Darius?
There is no ideal synergy for Katarina that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, Darius is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same team as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Katarina and Darius that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Darius allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Katarina players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Katarina and Darius together, you may not be granting your side a lot of utility. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Darius ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Katarina to work well with Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Katarina and Darius synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Darius than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.3% helping carry Darius with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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