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 Fiddlesticks 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, Fiddlesticks sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Fiddlesticks perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Fiddlesticks is an ally to Katarina, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Katarina does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Fiddlesticks is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Additionally, when Fiddlesticks plays with Katarina on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Fiddlesticks during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Fiddlesticks that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Katarina is a not very good ally for Fiddlesticks. By locking into the same side as Fiddlesticks, she drops their win rate by -2.0% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Fiddlesticks and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Fiddlesticks. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Katarina allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Fiddlesticks and Katarina together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of AD. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Fiddlesticks in order to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Fiddlesticks and Katarina synergy build include Malignance, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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