Katarina with Shaco
How to Synergize Katarina and Shaco
based on 4,517 Katarina with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Katarina Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Katarina perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is an ally to Shaco, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This may signal that Shaco supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Shaco on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Shaco.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Shaco on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Shaco
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no top companion for Katarina that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Shaco is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Katarina and Shaco that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Katarina. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Shaco 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 cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Katarina players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Katarina and Shaco together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina to pair well with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Katarina and Shaco synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Shaco than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Shaco with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Katarina players 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 runes that we analyzed for Katarina and Shaco pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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