Katarina with Brand
How to Synergize Katarina and Brand
based on 6,106 Katarina with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Brand Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Brand
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Katarina Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Brand helps Katarina perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is an ally to Brand, she observes a little drop in her full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Brand does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Brand.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Brand on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Brand
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Brand?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, Brand is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 49.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Katarina and Brand that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when finding Brand teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Katarina players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Brand together, you may not be granting your team very much engage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Brand teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina in order to synergize with Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Katarina and Brand synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Brand than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 49.3% when playing alongside Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina and Brand pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Brand with Katarina are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.