Katarina with Kalista
How to Synergize Katarina and Kalista
based on 1,165 Katarina with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Katarina Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kalista. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kalista helps Katarina perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is paired with Kalista, she gets a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Kalista does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kalista. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kalista.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Kalista on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kalista does a decent job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Kalista
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no perfect companion for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Kalista is a relatively poor companion for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, she drops their win rate by -2.4% to 46.4%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Katarina and Kalista that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kalista has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Kalista teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Katarina players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Katarina and Kalista together, you may not be granting your team enough utility. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 pair well with Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Katarina and Kalista synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 46.4% helping carry Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood 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 players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.4% win rate overall.
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