Garen with Karma
How to Synergize Garen and Karma
based on 3,593 Garen with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Karma Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Karma
Tips for Playing as Garen with Karma
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karma helps Garen perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Karma, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may signal that Karma supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Karma on the same team, 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.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Karma on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Karma
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Is Garen better when played alongside Karma?
There is no top synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Karma is a very typical ally for Garen. By being on the same side as Garen, she decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 47.7%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Garen and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be careful when finding Karma comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Karma together, you will not be providing your other teammates much attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Karma ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to synergize with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Garen and Karma synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Karma than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 47.7% when playing alongside Karma with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
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