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.
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
The Karma Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Karma perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is an ally to Nidalee, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Nidalee does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Nidalee 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 alongside Nidalee.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Nidalee on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Karma during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Karma that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Nidalee is a very bad companion for Karma. By playing on the same team as Karma, she lowers their win rate by -7.0% to 41.3%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Karma and Nidalee that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you should be cautious when arranging Nidalee comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Karma players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Karma and Nidalee together, you will not be granting your other allies very much sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to synergize with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Karma and Nidalee synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Nidalee than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 41.3% when playing alongside Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Karma players 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 sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 41.3% win rate overall.
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