Katarina with Kayn
How to Synergize Katarina and Kayn
based on 6,508 Katarina with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Katarina Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kayn helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Kayn, she observes a small increase in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Kayn helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kayn.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Kayn on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Kayn does a poor job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Kayn
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no one best companion for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, Kayn is a very typical companion for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.0%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Katarina and Kayn that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kayn has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Kayn allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Katarina players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Katarina and Kayn together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to synergize with Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Katarina and Kayn synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Kayn than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kayn with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina and Kayn pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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