Katarina with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Katarina and Lee Sin
based on 4,230 Katarina with Lee Sin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Lee Sin Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Katarina Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lee Sin helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is an ally to Lee Sin, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This change could signal that Lee Sin supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Lee Sin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Lee Sin.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Lee Sin on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Lee Sin does a decent job of covering Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Lee Sin
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, Lee Sin is a relatively poor ally for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 46.3%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Katarina and Lee Sin that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Lee Sin has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Lee Sin teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Katarina and Lee Sin together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to synergize with Lee Sin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Katarina and Lee Sin synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Lee Sin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 46.3% helping carry Lee Sin with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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