Yasuo with Katarina
How to Synergize Yasuo and Katarina
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Yasuo Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Katarina
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo 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 negative change shows that Katarina helps Yasuo perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yasuo tries to synergize with Katarina, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Katarina does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo 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.
Moreover, when Yasuo plays with Katarina on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Yasuo during teamfights.
Synergies between Yasuo and Katarina
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top ally for Yasuo that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Katarina is a very bad ally for Yasuo. By playing on the same team as Yasuo, she drops their win rate by -4.2% to 46.4%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Yasuo and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Yasuo. That means Yasuo players don't need to be careful when lining up Katarina comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Yasuo and Katarina together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Yasuo in order to work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Yasuo and Katarina synergy build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Kraken Slayer, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Yasuo players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Katarina with Yasuo are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.