Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
The Udyr 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, Udyr sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Udyr perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Udyr is an ally to Katarina, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Katarina doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Udyr is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Udyr plays with Katarina on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Udyr in team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Udyr that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Katarina is a relatively poor companion for Udyr. By playing on the same team as Udyr, she decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Udyr and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Udyr. That means Udyr players should be careful when finding Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Udyr players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Udyr and Katarina together, you may not be granting your side much utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Udyr to synergize with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Udyr and Katarina synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Force of Nature, and Liandry's Torment. When Udyr bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other common builds. In fact, Udyr had an average win rate of 47.9% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Udyr players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
If you need to see Udyr and Katarina collaboration tips and builds for a a specific player tier, feel free to choose one from the selection menu above. At first, the stats and tips and suggestions shown are computed using every round played with these champions.