Katarina with Lux
How to Synergize Katarina and Lux
based on 9,077 Katarina with Lux pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Lux Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Lux
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Katarina Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lux helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Lux, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Lux does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Lux 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 Lux.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Lux on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Lux does a poor job of covering Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Lux
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Lux?
There is no ideal synergy for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Lux is a not very good companion for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, she decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Katarina and Lux that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lux has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when finding Lux comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Katarina players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Katarina and Lux together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Lux ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Katarina and Lux synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Lux than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Lux with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Lux with Katarina are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.