Katarina with Yasuo
How to Synergize Katarina and Yasuo
based on 3,038 Katarina with Yasuo pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Yasuo Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Katarina Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Yasuo helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Yasuo, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Yasuo provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Yasuo 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 Yasuo.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Yasuo on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Yasuo does a poor job of covering Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Yasuo
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Yasuo is a not very good ally for Katarina. By playing on the same team as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 46.4%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Katarina and Yasuo that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Yasuo has a greater difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players need to be cautious when finding Yasuo comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Katarina players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Katarina and Yasuo together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much support. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Yasuo ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to synergize with Yasuo 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Katarina and Yasuo synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Yasuo than with many other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 46.4% when playing alongside Yasuo with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take 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 combinations players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.4% win rate overall.
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