Katarina with Zilean
How to Synergize Katarina and Zilean
based on 1,420 Katarina with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Katarina Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zilean helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is an ally to Zilean, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Zilean helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Zilean.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Zilean on the same team, she often takes more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Zilean
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Katarina that will always be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Zilean is a decent ally for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 50.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Katarina and Zilean that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when lining up Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Katarina players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Katarina and Zilean together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina to work well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Katarina and Zilean synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 50.3% helping carry Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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