Katarina with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Katarina and Heimerdinger
based on 1,239 Katarina with Heimerdinger pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Katarina Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Katarina perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is paired with Heimerdinger, she observes a little drop in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Heimerdinger does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Heimerdinger on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Heimerdinger
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no one best companion for Katarina that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, overall, Heimerdinger is a very typical companion for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 48.2%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Katarina and Heimerdinger that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when finding Heimerdinger allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Katarina and Heimerdinger together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Heimerdinger ally, 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to pair well with Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Katarina and Heimerdinger synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 48.2% helping carry Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Katarina players should take 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 sets players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
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