Karma with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Karma and Nunu & Willump
based on 2,164 Karma with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Karma with Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump Will Play
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Karma Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Karma in LoL
The Karma Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 Nunu & Willump. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nunu & Willump helps Karma perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Nunu & Willump, she observes a small decrease in her full damage output. This difference could signal that Nunu & Willump doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Karma in teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Nunu & Willump
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Is Karma better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no top champion pairing for Karma that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, Nunu & Willump is a terrible teammate for Karma. By playing on the same team as Karma, he decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 45.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Karma and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Nunu & Willump teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Karma players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Karma and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be providing your other allies much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karma to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Karma and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Karma combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Nunu & Willump than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 45.2% helping carry Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.2% win rate overall.
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