Katarina with Nami
How to Synergize Katarina and Nami
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Katarina Nami Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Nami
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Katarina Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nami helps Katarina perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is paired with Nami, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Nami provides protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Nami on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nami. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nami.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Nami on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Nami does a poor job of protecting Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Nami
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Nami?
There is no top ally for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her top ally. However, Nami is a very typical ally for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, she increases their win rate by 0.3% to 49.1%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Katarina and Nami that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Nami has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Nami allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Katarina and Nami together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough engage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nami teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 in order to work well with Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Katarina and Nami synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Nami than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Nami with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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