Katarina with Zac
How to Synergize Katarina and Zac
based on 2,861 Katarina with Zac pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
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 not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Zac, she gets a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Zac helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Zac on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Zac. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Zac.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Zac on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zac does a poor job of protecting Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Zac
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Zac?
There is no ideal synergy for Katarina that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Zac is a good ally for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he raises their win rate by 1.7% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Katarina and Zac that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Zac has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when finding Zac teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Katarina players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Zac together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zac ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 work well with Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina and Zac synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Zac than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 50.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zac with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Katarina players 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 builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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