Katarina with Ahri
How to Synergize Katarina and Ahri
based on 271 Katarina with Ahri pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Ahri Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Ahri
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.
Advice to Understand How Ahri Will Play
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Katarina Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ahri helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Ahri, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Ahri does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Ahri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Ahri. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Ahri.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Ahri on the same side, she on average takes more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Ahri does a poor job of covering Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Ahri
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no top synergy for Katarina that will always be her best teammate. Yet, Ahri is a below average companion for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, she lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 46.5%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Katarina and Ahri that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Ahri has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Ahri comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Katarina and Ahri together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Ahri teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to pair well with Ahri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Katarina and Ahri synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Ahri than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 46.5% when playing alongside Ahri with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Katarina and Ahri pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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