Annie with Katarina
How to Synergize Annie and Katarina
based on 369 Annie with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Annie Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Annie vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Annie with Katarina
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Annie in LoL
The Annie Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a large worsening in her 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 Annie perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie tries to synergize with Katarina, she gets a pretty big loss in her complete damage dealt. This could signal that Katarina does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Katarina.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Katarina on the same team, she usually receives less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Annie in teamfights.
Synergies between Annie and Katarina
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Is Annie better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best champion pairing for Annie that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, Katarina is a terrible teammate for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, she drops their win rate by -5.4% to 43.9%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Annie and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means you should be careful when lining up Katarina comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Annie players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Annie and Katarina together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Annie in order to work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Annie and Katarina synergy build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Annie incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 43.9% helping carry Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 43.9% win rate overall.
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