Karma with Gangplank
How to Synergize Karma and Gangplank
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Karma Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Karma with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Karma Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Karma in LoL
The Karma Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gangplank helps Karma perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma tries to synergize with Gangplank, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Gangplank supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Gangplank on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Karma during teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Gangplank
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Is Karma better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no top companion for Karma that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, overall, Gangplank is a very typical ally for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Karma and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Karma. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Gangplank teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Karma and Gangplank together, you may not be granting your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to synergize with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Karma and Gangplank synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Gangplank than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing alongside Gangplank with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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