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.
The Katarina Zeri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zeri, 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 Zeri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zeri helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Zeri, she sees a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Zeri does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that their presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Zeri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Zeri. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zeri.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Zeri on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Zeri does a decent job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
There is no top companion for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Zeri is a very bad ally for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, they drops their win rate by -4.6% to 44.2%. This shows that there is a terrible synergy between Katarina and Zeri that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zeri has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Zeri teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Katarina players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Katarina and Zeri together, you probably will not be giving your side enough support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zeri ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to work well with Zeri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Katarina and Zeri synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Zeri than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 44.2% when playing alongside Zeri with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.2% winrate overall.
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