Karma with Briar
How to Synergize Karma and Briar
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Karma Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Briar
Tips for Playing as Karma with Briar
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.
Karma Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Karma in LoL
The Karma Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karma sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Briar helps Karma perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is an ally to Briar, she gets a small increase in her full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Briar supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Briar.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Briar on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Briar does a decent job of covering Karma in teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Briar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Karma that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, Briar is a pretty good teammate for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, they raises their win rate by 1.9% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a good bond between Karma and Briar that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Briar comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Karma and Briar together, you will not be granting your other allies enough sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma in order to work well with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Karma and Briar synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Ardent Censer. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Briar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 50.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Briar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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