Kayn with Katarina
How to Synergize Kayn and Katarina
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Kayn Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Katarina
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Advice to Understand How Katarina Will Play
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.
Kayn Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kayn sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Kayn perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn is an ally to Katarina, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Katarina does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Katarina on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Kayn during teamfights.
Synergies between Kayn and Katarina
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kayn that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Katarina is a below average ally for Kayn. By locking into the same side as Kayn, she drops their win rate by -1.2% to 48.0%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Kayn and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be careful when finding Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Kayn players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kayn and Katarina together, you will not be granting your side a lot of crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayn in order to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kayn and Katarina synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Kayn included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Kayn players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kayn and Katarina pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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