Taric with Katarina
How to Synergize Taric and Katarina
based on 1,345 Taric with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taric Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Taric with Katarina
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
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.
Taric Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Taric in LoL
The Taric 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, Taric sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Taric perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taric is paired with Katarina, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Katarina doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Katarina on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Taric in team fights.
Synergies between Taric and Katarina
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Is Taric better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top synergy for Taric that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Katarina is a pretty good ally for Taric. By locking into the same team as Taric, she increases their win rate by 1.5% to 53.7%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Taric and Katarina that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Taric. That means you must be cautious when arranging Katarina teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Taric players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Taric and Katarina together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric to work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Taric and Katarina synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Katarina than with most other common builds. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 53.7% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Taric and Katarina pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
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