Katarina with Ziggs
How to Synergize Katarina and Ziggs
based on 981 Katarina with Ziggs pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Ziggs Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Ziggs
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 Ziggs Will Play
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Katarina Ziggs Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ziggs as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ziggs helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Ziggs, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Ziggs helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Ziggs on the same team, 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 Ziggs.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Ziggs on the same team, she usually receives more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Ziggs does a poor job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Ziggs
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Ziggs?
There is no perfect companion for Katarina that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Ziggs is a terrible companion for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he decreases their win rate by -3.9% to 44.9%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Katarina and Ziggs that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Ziggs has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Ziggs comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Katarina players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Katarina and Ziggs together, you will not be providing your team very much crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 in order to pair well with Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Katarina and Ziggs synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Ziggs than with most other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 44.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Ziggs with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating 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 we have analyed for Katarina and Ziggs pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.9% winrate overall.
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