Karma with Katarina
How to Synergize Karma and Katarina
based on 3,051 Karma with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Karma with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Karma Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Karma in LoL
The Karma Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Karma perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is an ally to Katarina, she sees a noticable drop in her total damage output. This may indicate that Katarina does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Katarina 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 alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Katarina on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Karma in team fights.
Synergies between Karma and Katarina
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Is Karma better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Karma that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a below average teammate for Karma. By being on the same side as Karma, she decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 46.3%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Karma and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players should be cautious when enlisting Katarina comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Karma players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Karma and Katarina together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Karma and Katarina synergy build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 46.3% helping carry Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Karma and Katarina pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Katarina with Karma are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.