Katarina with Hecarim
How to Synergize Katarina and Hecarim
based on 3,547 Katarina with Hecarim pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Hecarim Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Katarina Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Hecarim helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Hecarim, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Hecarim does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Hecarim on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Hecarim.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Hecarim on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Hecarim
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no perfect ally for Katarina that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Hecarim is a very typical companion for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Katarina and Hecarim that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Hecarim has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when finding Hecarim allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Katarina players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Katarina and Hecarim together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Hecarim ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 truly master Katarina in order to pair well with Hecarim during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Katarina and Hecarim synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Hecarim than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Hecarim with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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