Neeko with Katarina
How to Synergize Neeko and Katarina
based on 1,805 Neeko with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Neeko Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Neeko vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Neeko and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Neeko with Katarina
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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.
Neeko Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Neeko in LoL
The Neeko 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, Neeko 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 decrease shows that Katarina helps Neeko perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Neeko is paired with Katarina, she sees a measurable drop in her complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Katarina doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Neeko is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Moreover, when Neeko plays with Katarina on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Neeko in team fights.
Synergies between Neeko and Katarina
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Is Neeko better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Neeko that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, Katarina is a not very good companion for Neeko. By playing on the same side as Neeko, she lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 46.9%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Neeko and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Neeko. That means Neeko players must be cautious when enlisting Katarina comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Neeko players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Neeko and Katarina together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of cover. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Neeko in order to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Neeko and Katarina synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Neeko bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Neeko boasted an average win rate of 46.9% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Neeko and Katarina pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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