Katarina with Vladimir
How to Synergize Katarina and Vladimir
based on 669 Katarina with Vladimir pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Vladimir Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Katarina Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vladimir helps Katarina perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Vladimir, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Vladimir doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Vladimir 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 Vladimir.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Vladimir on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Vladimir does a decent job of covering Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Vladimir
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no top champion pairing for Katarina that will no matter what be her best ally. Yet, Vladimir is a not very good ally for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 46.3%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Katarina and Vladimir that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Vladimir has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when finding Vladimir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, Katarina players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Katarina and Vladimir together, you will not be giving your team very much support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Vladimir ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Katarina in order to synergize with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Katarina and Vladimir synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Vladimir than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 46.3% when playing alongside Vladimir with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Katarina players should take 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 sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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