K'Sante with Katarina
How to Synergize K'Sante and Katarina
based on 2,018 K'Sante with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
K'Sante Katarina Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Katarina
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Katarina
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps K'Sante perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When K'Sante is paired with Katarina, they gets a small decrease in their full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Katarina doesn't help protection for them to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when K'Sante plays with Katarina on the same team, they on average takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting K'Sante during team fights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Katarina
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal synergy for K'Sante that will 100% of the time be their top teammate. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very typical teammate for K'Sante. By being on the same side as K'Sante, she drops their win rate by -0.6% to 46.6%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between K'Sante and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than K'Sante. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning K'Sante and Katarina together, you will not be granting your side a lot of support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your K'Sante and Katarina synergy build include Unending Despair, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with most other common builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 46.6% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, K'Sante players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
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