Karma with Leona
How to Synergize Karma and Leona
based on 915 Karma with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Leona Synergy Summary
Best Karma vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Leona
Tips for Playing as Karma with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Karma Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Karma in LoL
The Karma Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Leona helps Karma perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Leona, she sees a big jump in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Leona helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Leona on the same team, she often takes more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Leona does a poor job of covering Karma during team fights.
Synergies between Karma and Leona
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Is Karma better when played alongside Leona?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Karma that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Leona is a superb ally for Karma. By playing on the same team as Karma, she increases their win rate by 4.5% to 52.8%. This signals that there is a very strong bond between Karma and Leona that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Leona comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Karma players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Karma and Leona together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of AD. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Leona ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 pair well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Karma and Leona synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 52.8% helping carry Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability 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 combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
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