Shyvana with Katarina
How to Synergize Shyvana and Katarina
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Shyvana Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Katarina
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana 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 Shyvana perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is paired with Katarina, she observes a moderate decrease in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Katarina does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Katarina on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Shyvana in teamfights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Katarina
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Shyvana that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor companion for Shyvana. By locking into the same team as Shyvana, she drops their win rate by -2.8% to 46.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Shyvana and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means you should be cautious when arranging Katarina allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Shyvana and Katarina together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to synergize with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Shyvana and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average winrate of 46.3% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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