Volibear with Katarina
How to Synergize Volibear and Katarina
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Volibear Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Katarina
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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.
Volibear Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Volibear perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear plays on the same team as Katarina, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Katarina doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Volibear plays with Katarina on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Volibear during teamfights.
Synergies between Volibear and Katarina
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal synergy for Volibear that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very typical companion for Volibear. By playing on the same side as Volibear, she decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 47.6%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Volibear and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Volibear. That means Volibear players need to be careful when finding Katarina comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Volibear and Katarina together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Volibear in order to pair well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Volibear and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Volibear boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Volibear and Katarina pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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