Katarina with Vayne
How to Synergize Katarina and Vayne
based on 7,112 Katarina with Vayne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Vayne Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Vayne
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Vayne
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 Vayne Will Play
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Katarina Vayne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vayne as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Vayne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vayne, 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 Vayne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vayne helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is an ally to Vayne, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Vayne supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Vayne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Vayne. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Vayne.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Vayne on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Vayne does a decent job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Vayne
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Vayne?
There is no one best synergy for Katarina that will always be her best ally. However, Vayne is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same team as Katarina, she increases their win rate by 0.3% to 49.1%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Katarina and Vayne that results in them performing better together than alone.
Vayne has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when lining up Vayne teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Katarina players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Katarina and Vayne together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of cover. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Vayne teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to work well with Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Katarina and Vayne synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Vayne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 49.1% helping carry Vayne with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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