Poppy with Katarina
How to Synergize Poppy and Katarina
based on 2,172 Poppy with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Katarina
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Poppy perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy is paired with Katarina, she observes a small decrease in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Katarina does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Katarina on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Poppy during team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Katarina
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal companion for Poppy that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Katarina is a very typical ally for Poppy. By locking into the same side as Poppy, she decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 49.1%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Poppy and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Poppy. That means you must be cautious when lining up Katarina comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Poppy players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Poppy and Katarina together, you will not be providing your other allies enough crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Poppy in order to pair well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Poppy and Katarina synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Katarina with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Poppy players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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