Katarina with Viktor
How to Synergize Katarina and Viktor
based on 121 Katarina with Viktor pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Viktor Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Viktor
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Viktor
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 Viktor Will Play
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Katarina Viktor Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viktor as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Viktor synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viktor, 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 Viktor. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Viktor helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Viktor, she gets a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Viktor does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Viktor on the same side, 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 alongside Viktor.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Viktor on the same team, she often receives more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Viktor does a poor job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Viktor
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Viktor?
There is no one best ally for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Viktor is a terrible companion for Katarina. By playing on the same team as Katarina, he decreases their win rate by -8.3% to 40.5%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Katarina and Viktor that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Viktor has a greater difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players must be very careful when arranging Viktor teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Katarina players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Katarina and Viktor together, you may not be providing your team a lot of utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Viktor teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina to synergize with Viktor during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Katarina and Viktor synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Viktor than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 40.5% helping carry Viktor with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Katarina players should take the Dark Harvest, 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 chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 40.5% winrate overall.
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