Katarina with Draven
How to Synergize Katarina and Draven
based on 4,370 Katarina with Draven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Draven Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Draven
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Draven
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 Draven Will Play
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
Katarina Draven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Draven as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Draven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Draven, 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 Draven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Draven helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Draven, she observes a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Draven does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Draven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Draven.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Draven on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Draven does a decent job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Draven
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Draven?
There is no perfect ally for Katarina that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, Draven is a very typical ally for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Katarina and Draven that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Draven has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Draven teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Katarina and Draven together, you may not be providing your side much protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Draven teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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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 synergize with Draven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Katarina and Draven synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Draven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing alongside Draven with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood 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 sets players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Draven with Katarina are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.