Qiyana with Katarina
How to Synergize Qiyana and Katarina
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Qiyana Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Qiyana vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Qiyana and Katarina
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.
Qiyana Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Qiyana in LoL
The Qiyana 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, Qiyana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Qiyana perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Qiyana is an ally to Katarina, she sees a moderate decrease in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate 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 Qiyana is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Qiyana plays with Katarina on the same side, she typically receives much more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Qiyana in team fights.
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Is Qiyana better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal companion for Qiyana that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Katarina is a very typical ally for Qiyana. By locking into the same side as Qiyana, she increases their win rate by 0.8% to 48.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Qiyana and Katarina that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Qiyana. That means Qiyana players don't need to be careful when arranging Katarina teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Qiyana and Katarina together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana to pair well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Qiyana and Katarina synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Qiyana combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Qiyana had an average winrate of 48.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Katarina with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Qiyana and Katarina pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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