Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger 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 fall shows that Karma helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger plays on the same team as Karma, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Karma helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Additionally, when Heimerdinger plays with Karma on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Karma does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger during team fights.
There is no top synergy for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Karma is a very typical teammate for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same team as Heimerdinger, she decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 49.3%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Heimerdinger and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karma has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Karma comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Heimerdinger and Karma together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Heimerdinger in order to work well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Heimerdinger and Karma synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Karma than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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