Katarina with Galio
How to Synergize Katarina and Galio
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Katarina Galio Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Galio Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Galio
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Galio
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 Galio Will Play
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
Katarina Galio Synergy Stats
How to Play with Galio as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 Galio. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Galio helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Galio, she observes a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Galio helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Galio 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 Galio.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Galio on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Galio does a poor job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Galio
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Galio?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Katarina that will always be her #1 teammate. However, Galio is a not very good ally for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 47.2%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Katarina and Galio that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Galio has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Galio comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Katarina players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Katarina and Galio together, you will not be giving your side very much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Galio ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Katarina and Galio synergy build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Galio than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Galio with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
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