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.
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
The Karma Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Heimerdinger helps Karma perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is an ally to Heimerdinger, she sees a little drop in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Heimerdinger does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Heimerdinger 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 Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Karma during team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Karma that will always be her #1 teammate. However, Heimerdinger is a decent ally for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, he increases their win rate by 1.0% to 49.3%. This shows that there is a good bond between Karma and Heimerdinger that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Heimerdinger comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Karma players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Karma and Heimerdinger together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Heimerdinger ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Karma in order to synergize with Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Karma and Heimerdinger synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Heimerdinger than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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