Vi with Katarina
How to Synergize Vi and Katarina
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Vi Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Vi vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Vi with Katarina
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Vi perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vi is an ally to Katarina, she observes a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Katarina doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Vi plays with Katarina on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Vi during team fights.
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Is Vi better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal ally for Vi that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very typical ally for Vi. By playing on the same side as Vi, she decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 51.2%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Vi and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Vi. That means Vi players should be cautious when finding Katarina comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Vi players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Vi and Katarina together, you probably will not be providing your team enough support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vi to work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Vi and Katarina synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Vi included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vi boasted an average winrate of 51.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Katarina with Vi are shown for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.