Katarina with Jayce
How to Synergize Katarina and Jayce
based on 1,048 Katarina with Jayce pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Jayce Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Jayce
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Jayce
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 Jayce Will Play
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
Katarina Jayce Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jayce as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Jayce synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jayce, 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 Jayce. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Jayce helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is an ally to Jayce, she observes a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Jayce does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Jayce 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 with Jayce.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Jayce on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Jayce does a poor job of protecting Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Jayce
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Jayce?
There is no perfect synergy for Katarina that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Jayce is a not very good ally for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 46.9%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Katarina and Jayce that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Jayce has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when arranging Jayce comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Katarina players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Katarina and Jayce together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Jayce ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 to work well with Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Katarina and Jayce synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Jayce than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 46.9% when playing alongside Jayce with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Katarina players should equip 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 combinations players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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