Taliyah with Katarina
How to Synergize Taliyah and Katarina
based on 529 Taliyah with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taliyah Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Taliyah vs Katarina Counter Build
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Core Taliyah Items
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Guide to Synergizing Taliyah and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Taliyah with Katarina
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Taliyah in LoL
The Taliyah 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, Taliyah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Taliyah perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taliyah is an ally to Katarina, she observes a measurable drop in her full damage output. This difference may indicate that Katarina does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played alongside 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 synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Taliyah plays with Katarina on the same side, she usually receives more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Katarina does a poor job of covering Taliyah during teamfights.
Synergies between Taliyah and Katarina
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Is Taliyah better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Taliyah that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, Katarina is a very bad companion for Taliyah. By locking into the same side as Taliyah, she decreases their win rate by -6.5% to 42.3%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Taliyah and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Taliyah. That means Taliyah players should be cautious when finding Katarina allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Taliyah and Katarina together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to synergize with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Taliyah and Katarina synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 42.3% helping carry Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 42.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Katarina with Taliyah are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.