Rumble with Katarina
How to Synergize Rumble and Katarina
based on 1,444 Rumble with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rumble Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Rumble vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Katarina
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
Rumble Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble 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, Rumble sees a very large drop in his 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 Rumble perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rumble plays on the same team as Katarina, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Katarina does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Moreover, when Rumble plays with Katarina on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Katarina does a poor job of covering Rumble during teamfights.
Synergies between Rumble and Katarina
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top companion for Rumble that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Katarina is a terrible ally for Rumble. By playing on the same team as Rumble, she drops their win rate by -3.5% to 45.8%. This signals that there is a very bad synergy between Rumble and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Rumble. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Katarina comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Rumble and Katarina together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rumble in order to pair well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Rumble and Katarina synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rumble had an average win rate of 45.8% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Rumble players should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rumble and Katarina pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.8% win rate overall.
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