Katarina with Master Yi
How to Synergize Katarina and Master Yi
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Katarina Master Yi Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Master Yi
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Master Yi
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 Master Yi Will Play
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Katarina Master Yi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Master Yi as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Master Yi helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Master Yi, she sees a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Master Yi does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Master Yi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Master Yi.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Master Yi on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Master Yi does a decent job of covering Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Master Yi
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Master Yi?
There is no ideal synergy for Katarina that will always be her top synergy. However, overall, Master Yi is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 49.7%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Katarina and Master Yi that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Master Yi has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when arranging Master Yi allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Katarina players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Katarina and Master Yi together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Master Yi ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 truly master Katarina to pair well with Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Katarina and Master Yi synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Master Yi than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 49.7% when playing alongside Master Yi with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
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