Katarina with Taliyah
How to Synergize Katarina and Taliyah
based on 529 Katarina with Taliyah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Taliyah Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Taliyah
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 Taliyah Will Play
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Katarina Taliyah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taliyah as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Taliyah helps Katarina perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Taliyah, she observes a small decrease in her full damage output. This change may signal that Taliyah doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Taliyah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Taliyah. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Taliyah.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Taliyah on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Taliyah does a poor job of protecting Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Taliyah
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Taliyah?
There is no ideal companion for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, Taliyah is a terrible companion for Katarina. By playing on the same team as Katarina, she drops their win rate by -6.5% to 42.3%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Katarina and Taliyah that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Taliyah has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when finding Taliyah comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Katarina players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Katarina and Taliyah together, you may not be giving your team very much attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Taliyah ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to synergize with Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Katarina and Taliyah synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Taliyah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 42.3% when playing alongside Taliyah with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.3% winrate overall.
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