Katarina with Tristana
How to Synergize Katarina and Tristana
based on 3,503 Katarina with Tristana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Tristana Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Katarina Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Tristana helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Tristana, she gets a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Tristana doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Tristana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Tristana.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Tristana on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Tristana
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Katarina that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Tristana is a below average companion for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, she lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 47.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Katarina and Tristana that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Tristana has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Tristana allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Katarina and Tristana together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Tristana ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Katarina and Tristana synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Tristana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 47.2% helping carry Tristana with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Katarina and Tristana pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Tristana with Katarina are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.