Thresh with Katarina
How to Synergize Thresh and Katarina
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Thresh Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Katarina
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh 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 Thresh perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Katarina, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may signal that Katarina does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played alongside Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Katarina on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Thresh in teamfights.
Synergies between Thresh and Katarina
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Thresh that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very typical ally for Thresh. By being on the same team as Thresh, she drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.0%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Thresh and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Thresh. That means you must be careful when lining up Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Thresh and Katarina together, you may not be giving your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to pair well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Thresh and Katarina synergy build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Katarina than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 48.0% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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