Katarina with Rakan
How to Synergize Katarina and Rakan
based on 4,014 Katarina with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Katarina Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rakan helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Rakan, she sees a small increase in her total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Rakan provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Rakan on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Rakan
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Katarina that will no matter what be her best ally. Yet, Rakan is a good teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same team as Katarina, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Katarina and Rakan that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Rakan 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 together, Katarina players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Katarina and Rakan together, you will not be providing your team enough attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina to pair well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Katarina and Rakan synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Rakan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Rakan with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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