Katarina with Annie
How to Synergize Katarina and Annie
based on 369 Katarina with Annie pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Annie Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Annie
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Katarina Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Annie helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Annie, she gets a small decrease in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Annie doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Annie. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Annie.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Annie on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Annie does a decent job of covering Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Annie
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Annie?
There is no top synergy for Katarina that will always be her top ally. However, Annie is a terrible companion for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, she lowers their win rate by -4.9% to 43.9%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Katarina and Annie that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when lining up Annie teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Annie together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Annie ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina to pair well with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina and Annie synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Annie than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 43.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Annie with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.9% winrate overall.
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