Katarina with Xayah
How to Synergize Katarina and Xayah
based on 2,036 Katarina with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Katarina Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xayah helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Xayah, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This could signal that Xayah provides protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Xayah 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 synergisticly with Xayah.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Xayah on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Xayah does a decent job of protecting Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Xayah
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Katarina that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Xayah is a not very good ally for Katarina. By playing on the same team as Katarina, she decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 47.5%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Katarina and Xayah that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Xayah has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Xayah teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Katarina and Xayah together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to pair well with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Katarina and Xayah synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Xayah than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when playing alongside Xayah with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you 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 that we analyzed for Katarina and Xayah pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Xayah with Katarina are given for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.