Katarina with K'Sante
How to Synergize Katarina and K'Sante
based on 2,018 Katarina with K'Sante pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina K'Sante Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Katarina with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Katarina K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that K'Sante helps Katarina perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as K'Sante, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that K'Sante helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with K'Sante on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with K'Sante.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with K'Sante on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that K'Sante does a poor job of covering Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and K'Sante
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Is Katarina better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, K'Sante is a below average ally for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, they lowers their win rate by -2.2% to 46.6%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Katarina and K'Sante that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
K'Sante has a greater difficulty than Katarina. That means you must be very careful when enlisting K'Sante comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Katarina and K'Sante together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough support. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your K'Sante ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina in order to synergize with K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Katarina and K'Sante synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of K'Sante than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 46.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to K'Sante with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
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