Katarina with Leona
How to Synergize Katarina and Leona
based on 5,065 Katarina with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Leona Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Leona
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Katarina Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Leona helps Katarina perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is an ally to Leona, she sees a small increase in her total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Leona helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Leona on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Leona does a decent job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Leona
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Leona?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Leona is a decent companion for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, she improves their win rate by 2.2% to 51.0%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Katarina and Leona that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Leona teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Katarina players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Katarina and Leona together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Leona ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to synergize with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Katarina and Leona synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Katarina players 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 runes that we analyzed for Katarina and Leona pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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