Katarina with Alistar
How to Synergize Katarina and Alistar
based on 2,245 Katarina with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Katarina Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Katarina perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is an ally to Alistar, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Alistar supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Alistar 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 synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Alistar on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Alistar does a decent job of covering Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Alistar
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no ideal ally for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, Alistar is a relatively poor teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.0%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Katarina and Alistar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Alistar allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Katarina and Alistar together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Katarina to work well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Katarina and Alistar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 47.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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