Katarina with Lucian
How to Synergize Katarina and Lucian
based on 8,145 Katarina with Lucian pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Lucian Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Katarina Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lucian helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Lucian, she observes a little increase in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Lucian provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Lucian 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 with Lucian.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Lucian on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Lucian does a decent job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Lucian
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no top ally for Katarina that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, Lucian is a not very good companion for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.6%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Katarina and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when arranging Lucian comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Katarina and Lucian together, you may not be granting your team much utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Lucian ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to pair well with Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Katarina and Lucian synergy build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Lucian than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip 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 combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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