Veigar with Katarina
How to Synergize Veigar and Katarina
based on 926 Veigar with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Veigar Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Katarina
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar 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, Veigar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Veigar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is paired with Katarina, he sees a moderate decrease in his total damage output. This change could signal that Katarina doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played alongside Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Katarina on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Katarina does a poor job of covering Veigar during team fights.
Synergies between Veigar and Katarina
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect ally for Veigar that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a below average teammate for Veigar. By being on the same side as Veigar, she lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 47.0%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Veigar and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Veigar. That means you must be cautious when arranging Katarina comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Veigar and Katarina together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough cover. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Veigar and Katarina synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Katarina than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 47.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Veigar players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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