Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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 Lissandra Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Lissandra perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra is paired with Katarina, she sees a large drop in her total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Katarina does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Katarina.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Katarina on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Katarina does a poor job of covering Lissandra in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Lissandra that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Katarina is a good teammate for Lissandra. By playing on the same side as Lissandra, she increases their win rate by 1.0% to 50.5%. This proves that there is a good strategic relationship between Lissandra and Katarina that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players need to be careful when lining up Katarina teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Lissandra players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Lissandra and Katarina together, you will not be giving your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to synergize with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Lissandra and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Lissandra players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Katarina with Lissandra are given for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.