Katarina with Jhin
How to Synergize Katarina and Jhin
based on 14,986 Katarina with Jhin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Jhin Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Jhin
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Jhin
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 Jhin Will Play
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
Katarina Jhin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jhin as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, 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 Jhin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Jhin helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Jhin, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Jhin supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Jhin 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 with Jhin.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Jhin on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Jhin does a poor job of protecting Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Jhin
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Jhin?
There is no one best ally for Katarina that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Jhin is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Katarina and Jhin that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Jhin has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Jhin comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Katarina and Jhin together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Jhin ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to pair well with Jhin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Katarina and Jhin synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Katarina used at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Jhin than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 48.7% when playing alongside Jhin with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Katarina players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Katarina and Jhin pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Jhin with Katarina are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.