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.
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
The Katarina Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rumble. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rumble helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Rumble, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This may demonstrate that Rumble does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Rumble 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 Rumble.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Rumble on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Rumble does a poor job of protecting Katarina during team fights.
There is no one best ally for Katarina that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Rumble is a not very good teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -3.0% to 45.8%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Katarina and Rumble that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Rumble has a greater difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players need to be very careful when finding Rumble teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Katarina players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Katarina and Rumble together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Rumble ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to pair well with Rumble during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Katarina and Rumble synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Rumble than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 45.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Rumble with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.8% winrate overall.
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