Kalista with Katarina
How to Synergize Kalista and Katarina
based on 1,165 Kalista with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kalista Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Katarina
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Kalista perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is paired with Katarina, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Katarina does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Katarina on the same team, 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 Kalista plays with Katarina on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Kalista in team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Katarina
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best synergy for Kalista that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, Katarina is a very typical companion for Kalista. By playing on the same team as Kalista, she decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 46.4%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Kalista and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Kalista. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Katarina teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Kalista players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Kalista and Katarina together, you will not be providing your side enough crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to synergize with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Kalista and Katarina synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Katarina than with many other common builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 46.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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