Katarina with Vi
How to Synergize Katarina and Vi
based on 3,838 Katarina with Vi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Vi Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Vi
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Katarina Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vi helps Katarina perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Vi, she sees a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Vi helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Vi 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 with Vi.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Vi on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Vi does a decent job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Vi
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Vi?
There is no top champion pairing for Katarina that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Vi is a decent teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, she improves their win rate by 2.4% to 51.2%. This signals that there is a good bond between Katarina and Vi that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Vi has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Vi comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Katarina and Vi together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Vi teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to work well with Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Katarina and Vi synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Vi than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Vi with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Katarina and Vi pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.2% win rate overall.
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