Katarina with Qiyana
How to Synergize Katarina and Qiyana
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Katarina Qiyana Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Qiyana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Qiyana
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Qiyana
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.
Katarina Qiyana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Qiyana as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Qiyana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Qiyana, 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 Qiyana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Qiyana helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Qiyana, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This could indicate that Qiyana provides protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Qiyana on the same team, 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 Qiyana.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Qiyana on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Qiyana does a decent job of covering Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Qiyana
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Qiyana?
There is no top ally for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, Qiyana is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, she lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Katarina and Qiyana that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Qiyana has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when enlisting Qiyana allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Katarina players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Katarina and Qiyana together, you will not be giving your team a lot of AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Qiyana teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 work well with Qiyana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Katarina and Qiyana synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Qiyana than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when playing alongside Qiyana with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Qiyana with Katarina are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.