Katarina with Illaoi
How to Synergize Katarina and Illaoi
based on 2,408 Katarina with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Katarina Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Illaoi helps Katarina perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Illaoi, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This could indicate that Illaoi provides protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Illaoi 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 synergisticly with Illaoi.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Illaoi on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Illaoi
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no top companion for Katarina that will always be her top teammate. However, overall, Illaoi is a decent companion for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, she raises their win rate by 1.4% to 50.2%. This proves that there is a good strategic relationship between Katarina and Illaoi that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Illaoi has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when enlisting Illaoi teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Katarina and Illaoi together, you may not be giving your team much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Illaoi teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 work well with Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Katarina and Illaoi synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Illaoi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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