Karma with Gnar
How to Synergize Karma and Gnar
based on 1,011 Karma with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Karma with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Karma Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Karma in LoL
The Karma Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Karma perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is an ally to Gnar, she gets a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Gnar does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gnar.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Gnar on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Gnar does a decent job of covering Karma in team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no ideal ally for Karma that will no matter what be her top ally. However, overall, Gnar is a relatively poor teammate for Karma. By playing on the same team as Karma, he decreases their win rate by -2.9% to 45.4%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Karma and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you need to be careful when finding Gnar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Karma and Gnar together, you will not be giving your team very much sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma in order to pair well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Karma and Gnar synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Gnar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 45.4% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take 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 sets that we analyzed for Karma and Gnar pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.4% winrate overall.
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