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Katarina with Kassadin

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How to Synergize Katarina and Kassadin

based on 71 Katarina with Kassadin pairs
Win Rate
40.8 %
K/D/A
1.99
Pick Rate
0.1 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

We download the results of from millions of League of Legends games straight from Riot Games each week. Katarina has fought alongside Kassadin in 71 recently played, competitive matches. By gathering so much great data from the creators of League of Legends, we are completely sure that we can showcase robust, insightful builds to help Katarina synergize with Kassadin. It is very rare for Katarina to play with Kassadin as teammates. This pairing has only happened in approx. 0.1% of matches with Katarina.

Katarina Kassadin Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Katarina does a pathetic job of fighting on the same side as Kassadin. Typically, she wins a dismal 40.8% of the time the champions play on the same team. If you want to maximize your potential as Katarina when fighting on the same team as Kassadin by figuring out how to better synergize your playstyle with him, then dig into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Katarina vs Kassadin Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionRefillable Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Blasting WandSorcerer's Shoes

Core Katarina Items

~22 Mins
Rabadon's DeathcapLich BaneNashor's Tooth

Optional Items

Stormsurge

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Katarina to level upq
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Second ability for Katarina to level upe
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Last skill for Katarina to max outw

Runes

DominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactEyeball CollectionRelentless Hunter
PrecisionTriumphCoup de Grace
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceMagic Resist
Katarina's passive ability p
Katarina's q ability q
Katarina's w ability w
Katarina's e ability e
Katarina's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
Q
5
Q
6
R
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Q
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E
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Kassadin

Tips for Playing as Katarina with Kassadin

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 Kassadin Will Play

Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.

Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.

Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.

Katarina Kassadin Synergy Stats

Katarina Image
Win Rate
40.8 %
VS
Win Rate
59.2 %
Kassadin Image
7.7
< Kills >
9.7
7.1
< Deaths >
6.9
6.4
< Assists >
5.7
1.72
< Killing Sprees >
2.17
138
< Minions Killed >
156
0.01
< Dragons Killed >
0.06
0.35
< Inhibitors >
0.35
3,452
< Physical Damage >
2,139
16,459
< Magic Damage >
21,329
952
< True Damage >
975
20,863
< Damage Dealt >
24,444
26,017
< Damage Taken >
24,981
11,260
< Gold Earned >
12,273
1.39
< Towers >
1.48
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
3,458
< Total Healing >
3,393
13,619
< Experience >
14,170
19
< Vision Score >
16
9
< Wards Placed >
8
54
< Time Dealing CC >
36

How to Play with Kassadin as Katarina in LoL

The Katarina Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kassadin helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Katarina tries to synergize with Kassadin, she observes a moderate decrease in her total damage output. This may indicate that Kassadin does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Kassadin 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 synergisticly with Kassadin.

Additionally, when Katarina plays with Kassadin on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Kassadin does a poor job of covering Katarina in teamfights.

Synergies between Katarina and Kassadin

Damage Types Compared

Katarina
Kassadin
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Katarina
Kassadin

Is Katarina better when played alongside Kassadin?

There is no top champion pairing for Katarina that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Kassadin is a very bad teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -8.0% to 40.8%. This shows that there is a terrible synergy between Katarina and Kassadin that results in them performing worse together than alone.

Kassadin has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Kassadin comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.

Working together, Katarina players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.

Although, by aligning Katarina and Kassadin together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.

Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.

Additional Information for Katarina Players

How We Calculated Our Katarina Kassadin Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Katarina and Kassadin, we analyzed 71 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Katarina with Kassadin comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to pair well with Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.

The top finished items to focus on in your Katarina and Kassadin synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Katarina combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Kassadin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 40.8% helping carry Kassadin with this build.

To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 40.8% winrate overall.

If you need to get Katarina and Kassadin synergy tips and stats for a a distinct player tier, please select one from the selection menu above. By default, the statistics and guides given are computed using all rounds played with both champions.