Rek'Sai with Katarina
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Katarina
based on 773 Rek'Sai with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rek'Sai Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Katarina
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Rek'Sai perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rek'Sai is paired with Katarina, he sees a noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Katarina does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Rek'Sai plays with Katarina on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Rek'Sai during team fights.
Synergies between Rek'Sai and Katarina
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Rek'Sai that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Katarina is a below average ally for Rek'Sai. By locking into the same team as Rek'Sai, she drops their win rate by -2.1% to 46.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Rek'Sai and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Rek'Sai. That means Rek'Sai players need to be careful when lining up Katarina teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Rek'Sai and Katarina together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Rek'Sai to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Rek'Sai and Katarina synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average winrate of 46.3% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Rek'Sai and Katarina pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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