Jhin with Katarina
How to Synergize Jhin and Katarina
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Jhin Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jhin and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Jhin with Katarina
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
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.
Jhin Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Jhin in LoL
The Jhin 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, Jhin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Jhin perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jhin plays on the same team as Katarina, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Katarina doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Jhin is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Additionally, when Jhin plays with Katarina on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Jhin in team fights.
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Is Jhin better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Jhin that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Katarina is a below average teammate for Jhin. By playing on the same team as Jhin, she drops their win rate by -2.3% to 48.7%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Jhin and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Jhin. That means Jhin players need to be careful when lining up Katarina comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Jhin players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Jhin and Katarina together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Jhin to pair well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Jhin and Katarina synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Rapid Firecannon. When Jhin bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jhin had an average winrate of 48.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Celerity, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Jhin and Katarina pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Katarina with Jhin are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.