Katarina with Vex
How to Synergize Katarina and Vex
based on 154 Katarina with Vex pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Vex Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Vex Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Vex
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Vex
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 Vex Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vex as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Vex synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vex, 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 Vex. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vex helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Vex, she gets a measurable drop in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Vex doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Vex on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vex.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Vex on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Vex does a poor job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Vex
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Vex?
There is no ideal ally for Katarina that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, Vex is a very typical ally for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, they increases their win rate by 0.6% to 49.4%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Katarina and Vex that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Vex has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Vex allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Katarina and Vex together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much engage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Vex ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to synergize with Vex during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Katarina and Vex synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Vex than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Vex with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 builds we have analyed for Katarina and Vex pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Vex with Katarina are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.