Janna with Katarina
How to Synergize Janna and Katarina
based on 3,450 Janna with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Janna Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Janna vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Janna and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Janna with Katarina
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Janna in LoL
The Janna 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, Janna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Janna perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Janna tries to synergize with Katarina, she observes a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Katarina does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Janna is played together with Katarina on the same side, 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 Janna plays with Katarina on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Janna in teamfights.
Synergies between Janna and Katarina
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Is Janna better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect synergy for Janna that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Katarina is a not very good teammate for Janna. By playing on the same side as Janna, she drops their win rate by -1.2% to 49.8%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Janna and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Janna. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Janna and Katarina together, you may not be granting your other allies enough attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to synergize with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Janna and Katarina synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 49.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Janna and Katarina pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Katarina with Janna are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.