Katarina with Olaf
How to Synergize Katarina and Olaf
based on 1,202 Katarina with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Katarina Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Olaf helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Olaf, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This could signal that Olaf does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Olaf 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 with Olaf.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Olaf on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Olaf
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no one best champion pairing for Katarina that will no matter what be her best ally. However, Olaf is a not very good ally for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Katarina and Olaf that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when lining up Olaf teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Katarina players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Olaf together, you may not be providing your side a lot of support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 synergize with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Katarina and Olaf synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Olaf than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 players used for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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