Nami with Katarina
How to Synergize Nami and Katarina
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Nami Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Nami with Katarina
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Nami in LoL
The Nami Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nami sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Nami perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami is an ally to Katarina, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This could indicate that Katarina does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Katarina on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Nami during team fights.
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Is Nami better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best companion for Nami that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, Katarina is a very typical teammate for Nami. By being on the same team as Nami, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.1%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Nami and Katarina that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players need to be cautious when enlisting Katarina teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nami and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of engage potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nami to synergize with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Nami and Katarina synergy build consist of Dream Maker, Imperial Mandate, and Dawncore. When Nami combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Nami players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Nami and Katarina pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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