Caitlyn with Katarina
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Katarina
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Caitlyn Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Katarina
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn 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, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Caitlyn perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn tries to synergize with Katarina, she observes a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This may indicate that Katarina does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Katarina on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Caitlyn in team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best ally for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, Katarina is a very typical ally for Caitlyn. By being on the same team as Caitlyn, she drops their win rate by -0.1% to 49.2%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Caitlyn and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players need to be cautious when arranging Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Caitlyn players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Caitlyn and Katarina together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Caitlyn in order to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Caitlyn and Katarina synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Caitlyn combined at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Katarina than with most other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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