Katarina with Poppy
How to Synergize Katarina and Poppy
based on 2,172 Katarina with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Katarina Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Poppy helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Poppy, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This change could signal that Poppy helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Poppy on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Poppy does a poor job of protecting Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Poppy
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no perfect synergy for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Poppy is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, she improves their win rate by 0.3% to 49.1%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Katarina and Poppy that results in them performing better together than alone.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Poppy allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Katarina and Poppy together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina to pair well with Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Katarina and Poppy synergy build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Poppy than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Poppy with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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