Kalista with Karma
How to Synergize Kalista and Karma
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Kalista Karma Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Karma
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Karma
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop 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 Kalista perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista is paired with Karma, she observes a little increase in her total damage output. This may indicate that Karma provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played together with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Karma.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Karma on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Karma does a decent job of covering Kalista in teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Karma
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Karma?
There is no ideal ally for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Karma is a relatively poor companion for Kalista. By locking into the same side as Kalista, she decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 45.6%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Kalista and Karma that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be very careful when lining up Karma allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Kalista players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kalista and Karma together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kalista in order to pair well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Kalista and Karma synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Karma than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 45.6% when playing alongside Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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