Katarina with Warwick
How to Synergize Katarina and Warwick
based on 5,735 Katarina with Warwick pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Warwick Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Warwick
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Warwick
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 Warwick Will Play
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
Katarina Warwick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Warwick as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Warwick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Warwick, 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 Warwick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Warwick helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Warwick, she observes a little increase in her full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Warwick provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Warwick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Warwick. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Warwick.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Warwick on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Warwick does a decent job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Warwick
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Warwick?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Katarina that will always be her top synergy. However, overall, Warwick is a very typical ally for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 48.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Katarina and Warwick that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Warwick has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when finding Warwick teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should see 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.
Although, by bringing Katarina and Warwick together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Warwick ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your 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
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to work well with Warwick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Katarina and Warwick synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Warwick than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing alongside Warwick with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Katarina and Warwick pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Warwick with Katarina are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.