Katarina with Akali
How to Synergize Katarina and Akali
based on 1,213 Katarina with Akali pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Akali Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Akali Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Katarina Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Akali
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Akali
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 Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Katarina Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, 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 Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akali helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Akali, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Akali does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Akali on the same team, 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 Akali.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Akali on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Akali does a poor job of covering Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Akali
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Katarina better when played alongside Akali?
There is no one best ally for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Akali is a terrible ally for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, she decreases their win rate by -5.7% to 43.1%. This shows that there is a terrible synergy between Katarina and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Akali comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Katarina and Akali together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of support. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Katarina
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Katarina Players
How We Calculated Our Katarina Akali Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina in order to synergize with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Katarina and Akali synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Akali than with many other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 43.1% when playing alongside Akali with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating 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 combinations players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.1% winrate overall.
If you want to view Katarina and Akali cooperations tips and builds for a a particular division rank, please choose one from the selection menu provided above. At first, the statistics and tips and suggestions given are calculated using every round finished with these champs.