Elise with Katarina
How to Synergize Elise and Katarina
based on 844 Elise with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Elise Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Elise vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Elise and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Elise with Katarina
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Elise in LoL
The Elise 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, Elise 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 drop shows that Katarina helps Elise perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Elise is paired with Katarina, she sees a little decrease in her full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Katarina does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Elise is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Elise plays with Katarina on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Elise in teamfights.
Synergies between Elise and Katarina
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Is Elise better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Elise that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Katarina is a not very good ally for Elise. By locking into the same team as Elise, she lowers their win rate by -2.7% to 45.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Elise and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Elise. That means Elise players don't need to be cautious when lining up Katarina comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Elise and Katarina together, you may not be giving your team very much utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Elise to work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, 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 will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Elise and Katarina synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 45.4% helping carry Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Elise players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Elise and Katarina pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.4% win rate overall.
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