Karma with Maokai
How to Synergize Karma and Maokai
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Karma Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Karma with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Karma Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Karma in LoL
The Karma Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Karma perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Maokai, she observes a massive increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Maokai provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Maokai 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 Maokai.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Maokai on the same side, she usually receives more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Karma during teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best champion pairing for Karma that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, overall, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, he improves their win rate by 2.3% to 50.6%. This proves that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Karma and Maokai that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, Karma players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Karma and Maokai together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Karma and Maokai synergy build consist of Malignance, Horizon Focus, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Karma players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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