Katarina with Gragas
How to Synergize Katarina and Gragas
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Katarina Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Katarina Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gragas helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is an ally to Gragas, she observes a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Gragas helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gragas.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Gragas on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Gragas
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no top companion for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Gragas is a relatively poor ally for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Katarina and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Gragas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Katarina players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Katarina and Gragas together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 work well with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Katarina and Gragas synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Gragas than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 47.2% helping carry Gragas with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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