Katarina with Mordekaiser
How to Synergize Katarina and Mordekaiser
based on 7,943 Katarina with Mordekaiser pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Mordekaiser Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Mordekaiser Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Mordekaiser
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 Mordekaiser Will Play
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
Katarina Mordekaiser Synergy Stats
How to Play with Mordekaiser as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Mordekaiser synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Mordekaiser, 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 Mordekaiser. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Mordekaiser helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is paired with Mordekaiser, she sees a little drop in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Mordekaiser does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Mordekaiser on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Mordekaiser. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Mordekaiser.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Mordekaiser on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Mordekaiser does a poor job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Mordekaiser
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Mordekaiser?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Katarina that will always be her best synergy. However, Mordekaiser is a decent companion for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he raises their win rate by 1.4% to 50.2%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Katarina and Mordekaiser that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Mordekaiser has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when arranging Mordekaiser allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Katarina players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Katarina and Mordekaiser together, you may not be granting your other allies much support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Mordekaiser teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina to pair well with Mordekaiser during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Katarina and Mordekaiser synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Mordekaiser than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Mordekaiser with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Katarina and Mordekaiser pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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