Zac with Katarina
How to Synergize Zac and Katarina
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Zac Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Zac with Katarina
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Zac in LoL
The Zac 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, Zac sees a large worsening 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 Zac perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zac is paired with Katarina, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Katarina does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played alongside Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Zac plays with Katarina on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Zac in teamfights.
Synergies between Zac and Katarina
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Is Zac better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zac that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor teammate for Zac. By locking into the same team as Zac, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 50.5%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Zac and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Zac. That means Zac players don't need to be cautious when lining up Katarina teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Zac players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Zac and Katarina together, you will not be providing your team much utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their 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 heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zac to pair well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Zac and Katarina synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Hollow Radiance. When Zac bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with many other common builds. In fact, Zac had an average win rate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Zac players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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