Katarina with Taric
How to Synergize Katarina and Taric
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Katarina Taric Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Taric
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Katarina Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Taric helps Katarina perform worse 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 Taric, she observes a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Taric provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Taric 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 Taric.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Taric on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Taric does a decent job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Taric?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Katarina that will no matter what be her best ally. However, Taric is a top-tier companion for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he raises their win rate by 4.9% to 53.7%. This proves that there is an important strategic relationship between Katarina and Taric that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when lining up Taric allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Katarina and Taric together, you will not be giving your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to work well with Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina and Taric synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Taric than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 53.7% helping carry Taric with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina and Taric pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.7% win rate overall.
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