Lux with Katarina
How to Synergize Lux and Katarina
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Lux Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Lux with Katarina
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Advice to Understand How Katarina Will Play
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.
Lux Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Lux in LoL
The Lux 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, Lux sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Lux perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lux is an ally to Katarina, she gets a measurable drop in her full damage output. This difference may signal that Katarina does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played with Katarina on the same team, 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 Katarina.
Additionally, when Lux plays with Katarina on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Lux in team fights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal companion for Lux that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor ally for Lux. By locking into the same team as Lux, she decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Lux and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Lux. That means you should be careful when arranging Katarina teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Lux and Katarina together, you may not be granting your side a lot of AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lux to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Lux and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Lux used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Katarina than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lux boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Lux players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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