Viktor with Katarina
How to Synergize Viktor and Katarina
based on 121 Viktor with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Katarina
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Viktor perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor is paired with Katarina, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Katarina provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Katarina on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Viktor in team fights.
Synergies between Viktor and Katarina
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Viktor that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Katarina is a very bad ally for Viktor. By being on the same side as Viktor, she decreases their win rate by -9.7% to 40.5%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Viktor and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Katarina teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Viktor and Katarina together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Viktor to synergize with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Viktor and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Viktor included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Viktor boasted an average win rate of 40.5% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Viktor players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Viktor and Katarina pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 40.5% win rate overall.
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