Karma with Gwen
How to Synergize Karma and Gwen
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Karma Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Karma with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Karma Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Karma in LoL
The Karma Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gwen helps Karma perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma tries to synergize with Gwen, she sees a measurable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Gwen does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Gwen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gwen.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Gwen on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Karma during teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Gwen
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Is Karma better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Karma that will always be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Gwen is a relatively poor ally for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 47.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Karma and Gwen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Gwen allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Karma players will likely witness 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 bringing Karma and Gwen together, you will not be providing your team enough attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Gwen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma in order to pair well with Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Karma and Gwen synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Gwen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Gwen with this build.
To have the highest 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Gwen with Karma are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.