Karma with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Karma and Caitlyn
based on 9,803 Karma with Caitlyn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Karma with Caitlyn
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.
Advice to Understand How Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Karma Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Karma in LoL
The Karma Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Caitlyn helps Karma perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is paired with Caitlyn, she sees a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Caitlyn does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Caitlyn 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 synergisticly with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Caitlyn on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Caitlyn does a decent job of covering Karma during teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no ideal ally for Karma that will always be her best ally. However, Caitlyn is a relatively poor ally for Karma. By playing on the same side as Karma, she drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.1%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Karma and Caitlyn that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you must be very careful when lining up Caitlyn comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Karma and Caitlyn together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to synergize with Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Karma and Caitlyn synergy build consist of Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Moonstone Renewer. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Caitlyn than with many other common builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Caitlyn with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Karma and Caitlyn pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Caitlyn with Karma are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.