Alistar with Katarina
How to Synergize Alistar and Katarina
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Alistar Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Katarina
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Katarina, he observes a moderate decrease in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Katarina does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Katarina on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Alistar in teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Katarina
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best champion pairing for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Katarina is a not very good teammate for Alistar. By being on the same side as Alistar, she drops their win rate by -2.4% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Alistar and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players must be very careful when finding Katarina comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Alistar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Alistar and Katarina together, you may not be granting your team very much crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Alistar to pair well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Alistar and Katarina synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 47.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
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