Katarina with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Katarina and Kai'Sa
based on 5,121 Katarina with Kai'Sa pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Kai'Sa
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.
Advice to Understand How Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Katarina Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kai'Sa. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kai'Sa helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Kai'Sa, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Kai'Sa doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kai'Sa does a decent job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Kai'Sa
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no ideal synergy for Katarina that will always be her best ally. However, Kai'Sa is a not very good ally for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, she lowers their win rate by -2.7% to 46.1%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Katarina and Kai'Sa that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kai'Sa teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Katarina and Kai'Sa together, you may not be providing your team a lot of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Katarina in order to synergize with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Katarina and Kai'Sa synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 46.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.1% win rate overall.
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