Katarina with Kindred
How to Synergize Katarina and Kindred
based on 2,628 Katarina with Kindred pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Katarina Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kindred helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is paired with Kindred, she sees a small decrease in her full damage output. This may demonstrate that Kindred does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that their presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kindred.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Kindred on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kindred does a decent job of covering Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Kindred
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no perfect ally for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Kindred is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, they has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.8%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Katarina and Kindred that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Kindred has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when finding Kindred comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Katarina players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Katarina and Kindred together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kindred ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina to work well with Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Katarina and Kindred synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Kindred than with most other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Kindred with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Katarina and Kindred pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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