Alistar with Karma
How to Synergize Alistar and Karma
based on 508 Alistar with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Karma Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Karma
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Karma
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Alistar Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karma helps Alistar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Karma, he observes a noticable increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Karma helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Karma on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Karma does a poor job of covering Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Karma
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Karma?
There is no top companion for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Karma is a very typical teammate for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, she increases their win rate by 0.4% to 49.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Alistar and Karma that results in them performing better together than alone.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Karma allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Alistar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Alistar and Karma together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Karma ally, you should focus on maximizing your 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 learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to work well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Alistar and Karma synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.8% when playing alongside Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Alistar and Karma pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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