Katarina with Janna
How to Synergize Katarina and Janna
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Katarina Janna Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Janna
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Janna
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 Janna Will Play
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Katarina Janna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Janna as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 Janna. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Janna helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is an ally to Janna, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Janna supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Janna on the same side, 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 with Janna.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Janna on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Janna does a decent job of covering Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Janna
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Janna?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Katarina that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, Janna is a decent companion for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, she raises their win rate by 1.0% to 49.8%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Katarina and Janna that results in them performing better together than alone.
Janna has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Janna teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Katarina players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Katarina and Janna together, you may not be granting your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Janna teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 synergize with Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Katarina and Janna synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Janna than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 49.8% when playing alongside Janna with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating 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 players picked for Katarina and Janna pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.8% winrate overall.
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