Karma with Kalista
How to Synergize Karma and Kalista
based on 673 Karma with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Kalista Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Karma with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Karma Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Karma in LoL
The Karma Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kalista helps Karma perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is an ally to Kalista, she observes a clear improvement in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Kalista helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Kalista 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 Kalista.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Kalista on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kalista does a decent job of covering Karma during team fights.
Synergies between Karma and Kalista
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Is Karma better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no perfect synergy for Karma that will always be her #1 teammate. However, Kalista is a below average teammate for Karma. By playing on the same side as Karma, she drops their win rate by -2.7% to 45.6%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Karma and Kalista that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kalista has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players need to be cautious when finding Kalista teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Karma players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Karma and Kalista together, you may not be granting your side very much crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Karma and Kalista synergy build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma combined at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Kalista than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
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