Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
The Cassiopeia 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, Cassiopeia 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 fall shows that Katarina helps Cassiopeia perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Cassiopeia is an ally to Katarina, she sees a small decrease in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Katarina does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Cassiopeia is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Katarina.
Additionally, when Cassiopeia plays with Katarina on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Cassiopeia during team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Cassiopeia that will always be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very bad companion for Cassiopeia. By locking into the same side as Cassiopeia, she lowers their win rate by -6.0% to 44.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Cassiopeia and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Cassiopeia. That means Cassiopeia players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Katarina teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Cassiopeia players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Cassiopeia and Katarina together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Cassiopeia in order to pair well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Cassiopeia and Katarina synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Cassiopeia combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Cassiopeia boasted an average winrate of 44.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Katarina with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.3% winrate overall.
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