Wukong with Katarina
How to Synergize Wukong and Katarina
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Wukong Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Katarina
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Wukong sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Wukong perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Wukong is paired with Katarina, he observes a measurable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Katarina does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played together with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Wukong plays with Katarina on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Wukong in teamfights.
Synergies between Wukong and Katarina
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Wukong that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Katarina is a below average ally for Wukong. By playing on the same side as Wukong, she drops their win rate by -1.8% to 47.6%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Wukong and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Wukong. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Katarina teammates to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Wukong and Katarina together, you will not be granting your side very much crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Wukong in order to pair well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Wukong and Katarina synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Katarina than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Wukong boasted an average win rate of 47.6% helping carry Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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