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.
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
The Katarina Sivir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sivir, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sivir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sivir helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Sivir, she sees a small increase in her total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Sivir helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Sivir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Sivir. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Sivir.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Sivir on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Sivir does a poor job of covering Katarina during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, overall, Sivir is a very typical ally for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, she drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Katarina and Sivir that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Sivir has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when lining up Sivir allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Katarina players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Katarina and Sivir together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Sivir ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to pair well with Sivir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Katarina and Sivir synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Sivir than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 48.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sivir with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Katarina and Sivir pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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