Amumu with Karma
How to Synergize Amumu and Karma
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Amumu Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Karma
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Karma
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu 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, Amumu sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karma helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is an ally to Karma, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Karma supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Moreover, when Amumu plays with Karma on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Amumu during team fights.
Synergies between Amumu and Karma
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Karma?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Karma is a very typical ally for Amumu. By being on the same team as Amumu, she drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.2%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Amumu and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you must be careful when finding Karma comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Amumu and Karma together, you may not be granting your other allies enough attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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 Amumu in order to work well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Amumu and Karma synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Amumu used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Karma than with many other typical builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing alongside Karma with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Amumu and Karma pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Karma with Amumu are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.