Katarina with Irelia
How to Synergize Katarina and Irelia
based on 2,186 Katarina with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Katarina Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Katarina perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Irelia, she gets a small decrease in her total damage output. This could signal that Irelia does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Irelia.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Irelia on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Irelia
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, Irelia is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, she decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 48.1%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Katarina and Irelia that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Irelia has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Irelia comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Katarina players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Katarina and Irelia together, you will not be giving your team much utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 synergize with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Katarina and Irelia synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Irelia than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Irelia with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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