Brand with Katarina
How to Synergize Brand and Katarina
based on 6,106 Brand with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Brand with Katarina
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand 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 Brand perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand is an ally to Katarina, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Katarina doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Katarina on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Brand in teamfights.
Synergies between Brand and Katarina
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Is Brand better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best champion pairing for Brand that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Katarina is a not very good ally for Brand. By locking into the same side as Brand, she drops their win rate by -2.1% to 49.3%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Brand and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means Brand players should be careful when finding Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Brand and Katarina together, you may not be granting your side very much engage potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on increasing 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 truly master Brand in order to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Brand and Katarina synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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