Karma with Hecarim
How to Synergize Karma and Hecarim
based on 2,675 Karma with Hecarim pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Hecarim Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Karma with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Karma Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Karma in LoL
The Karma Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Hecarim helps Karma perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma tries to synergize with Hecarim, she observes a little decrease in her full damage output. This could indicate that Hecarim does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Hecarim.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Hecarim on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Karma in team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no one best companion for Karma that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Hecarim is a relatively poor teammate for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 46.6%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Karma and Hecarim that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Hecarim has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you should be careful when finding Hecarim comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Karma players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Karma and Hecarim together, you probably will not be providing your team very much utility. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Hecarim ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to pair well with Hecarim during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Karma and Hecarim synergy build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Karma combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Hecarim than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 46.6% when playing alongside Hecarim with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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