Katarina with Gwen
How to Synergize Katarina and Gwen
based on 2,356 Katarina with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Katarina Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is an ally to Gwen, she sees a little drop in her total damage output. This difference could indicate that Gwen does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Gwen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gwen.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Gwen on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Gwen
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no top ally for Katarina that will always be her best teammate. Yet, Gwen is a terrible ally for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, she lowers their win rate by -4.1% to 44.7%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Katarina and Gwen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gwen has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Gwen allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Katarina players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Gwen together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gwen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to work well with Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Katarina and Gwen synergy build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Gwen than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 44.7% when playing alongside Gwen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 rune builds we have analyed for Katarina and Gwen pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Gwen with Katarina are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.