Lucian with Katarina
How to Synergize Lucian and Katarina
based on 8,145 Lucian with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Katarina
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Lucian perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian is an ally to Katarina, he gets a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Katarina doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Moreover, when Lucian plays with Katarina on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Lucian during teamfights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect synergy for Lucian that will always be his ideal synergy. However, Katarina is a not very good ally for Lucian. By playing on the same side as Lucian, she drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.6%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Lucian and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players should be very careful when enlisting Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Lucian players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Lucian and Katarina together, you may not be granting your team enough support. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian in order to work well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Lucian and Katarina synergy build include Bloodthirster, Essence Reaver, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lucian had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Lucian players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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