Katarina with Zac
How to Synergize Katarina and Zac
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Katarina Zac Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Zac
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Katarina Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zac helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Zac, she observes a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference could signal that Zac supports 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 Zac on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Zac. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zac.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Zac on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zac does a poor job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Zac
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Zac?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Katarina that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Zac is a fantastic companion for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he improves their win rate by 3.8% to 52.4%. This demonstrates that there is a strong bond between Katarina and Zac that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Zac has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Zac allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Katarina and Zac together, you probably will not be providing your team very much crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Zac ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to work well with Zac during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Katarina and Zac synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Zac than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zac with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina and Zac pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.4% win rate overall.
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