Leona with Katarina
How to Synergize Leona and Katarina
based on 5,065 Leona with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Leona with Katarina
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Understand How Katarina Will Play
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.
Leona Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Leona in LoL
The Leona Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Leona perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is an ally to Katarina, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Katarina doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Katarina on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Leona in team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Katarina
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Is Leona better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best champion pairing for Leona that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, Katarina is a below average ally for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, she drops their win rate by -1.2% to 51.0%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Leona and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means Leona players need to be very careful when finding Katarina allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Leona players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Leona and Katarina together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona in order to work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Leona and Katarina synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Katarina with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Leona and Katarina pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Katarina with Leona are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.