Katarina with Wukong
How to Synergize Katarina and Wukong
based on 1,439 Katarina with Wukong pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Wukong Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Katarina Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Wukong helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is paired with Wukong, she observes a small increase in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Wukong supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Wukong on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Wukong. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Wukong.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Wukong on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Wukong does a poor job of protecting Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Wukong
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Katarina that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Wukong is a relatively poor ally for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Katarina and Wukong that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Wukong has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Wukong comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Wukong together, you may not be providing your team a lot of crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Wukong teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina in order to work well with Wukong during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Katarina and Wukong synergy build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Wukong than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry Wukong with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Katarina and Wukong pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Wukong with Katarina are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.