Olaf with Katarina
How to Synergize Olaf and Katarina
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Olaf Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Katarina
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf 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, Olaf sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Olaf perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf tries to synergize with Katarina, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Katarina does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played alongside Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Katarina on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Olaf in teamfights.
Synergies between Olaf and Katarina
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Olaf that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Katarina is a not very good companion for Olaf. By being on the same side as Olaf, she lowers their win rate by -2.2% to 46.8%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Olaf and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means Olaf players should be very careful when arranging Katarina comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Olaf players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Olaf and Katarina together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 Olaf in order to synergize with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Olaf and Katarina synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Katarina than with most other typical builds. In fact, Olaf boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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