Xerath with Katarina
How to Synergize Xerath and Katarina
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Xerath Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Katarina
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath 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 drop shows that Katarina helps Xerath perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath is paired with Katarina, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Katarina does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Xerath plays with Katarina on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Xerath during team fights.
Synergies between Xerath and Katarina
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Katarina is a relatively poor ally for Xerath. By playing on the same team as Xerath, she lowers their win rate by -3.0% to 47.6%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Xerath and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Xerath. That means Xerath players don't need to be cautious when lining up Katarina teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Xerath and Katarina together, you may not be giving your side very much crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To truly master Xerath in order to synergize with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Xerath and Katarina synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Xerath combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Xerath players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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