Aphelios with Karma
How to Synergize Aphelios and Karma
based on 2,346 Aphelios with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Karma Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Karma
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Karma
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karma helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Karma, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Karma provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside 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 synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Karma on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Karma does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Karma
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Karma?
There is no perfect ally for Aphelios that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Karma is a not very good ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, she decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 47.4%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Aphelios and Karma that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karma has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when lining up Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Aphelios and Karma together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to pair well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Aphelios and Karma synergy build include Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Karma than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 47.4% when playing alongside Karma with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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