Syndra vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Syndra
based on 3,146 Syndra vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Katarina
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
Advice to Win Against Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Syndra vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Syndra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several valuable Syndra against Katarina counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, showing that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Katarina..
Syndra typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Katarina. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Syndra and Katarina
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Who is Better, Syndra or Katarina?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually loses when trying to fight Katarina, with a 46.0% win rate. As a result, Syndra makes a bad counter to Katarina.
While Syndra does have a lower winrate than Katarina, when facing one another, Syndra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Syndra into Katarinaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Syndra also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Syndra is a bad counter to Katarina. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Syndra against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Syndra in order to counter Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Katarina. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Syndra versus Katarina build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Syndra used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Syndra boasted an average winrate of 46.0% battling Katarina with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Katarina as Syndra, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Syndra vs Katarina fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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