Gwen with Karma
How to Synergize Gwen and Karma
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Gwen Karma Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Karma
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Karma
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karma helps Gwen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gwen tries to synergize with Karma, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Karma provides cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Karma on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Gwen in team fights.
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Karma?
There is no perfect companion for Gwen that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, Karma is a not very good teammate for Gwen. By playing on the same team as Gwen, she lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 47.0%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Gwen and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Gwen. That means Gwen players don't need to be very careful when finding Karma comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gwen and Karma together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Gwen to synergize with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Gwen and Karma synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Cosmic Drive. When Gwen combined at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Karma than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gwen had an average win rate of 47.0% when playing alongside Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Gwen players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Karma with Gwen are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.