Bard with Karma
How to Synergize Bard and Karma
based on 799 Bard with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Karma
Tips for Playing as Bard with Karma
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard 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 worsening shows that Karma helps Bard perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Karma, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Karma supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Karma on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of protecting Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best companion for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Karma is a below average teammate for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, she lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 50.6%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Bard and Karma that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karma has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Bard and Karma together, you probably will not be giving your side enough AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard in order to work well with Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Bard and Karma synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Karma than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Karma with Bard are presented for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.