Kha'Zix with Katarina
How to Synergize Kha'Zix and Katarina
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Kha'Zix Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Kha'Zix vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kha'Zix and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix with Katarina
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Kha'Zix Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Kha'Zix in LoL
The Kha'Zix 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, Kha'Zix sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Kha'Zix perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kha'Zix is paired with Katarina, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change could signal that Katarina does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kha'Zix is played with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Kha'Zix plays with Katarina on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Kha'Zix in teamfights.
Synergies between Kha'Zix and Katarina
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Is Kha'Zix better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top companion for Kha'Zix that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Katarina is a not very good teammate for Kha'Zix. By playing on the same side as Kha'Zix, she lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Kha'Zix and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Kha'Zix. That means Kha'Zix players need to be careful when finding Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Kha'Zix players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Kha'Zix and Katarina together, you probably will not be granting your side much utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kha'Zix to synergize with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Kha'Zix and Katarina synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Kha'Zix bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Katarina than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kha'Zix boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Kha'Zix players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Kha'Zix and Katarina pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Katarina with Kha'Zix are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.