Karma with Shen
How to Synergize Karma and Shen
based on 1,565 Karma with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Shen
Tips for Playing as Karma with Shen
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 Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Karma Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Karma in LoL
The Karma Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, 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 Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Karma perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is an ally to Shen, she sees a small decrease in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Shen does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Shen 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 with Shen.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Shen on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Shen does a decent job of protecting Karma in teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect synergy for Karma that will always be her #1 synergy. However, Shen is a below average ally for Karma. By playing on the same side as Karma, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 47.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Karma and Shen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be careful when arranging Shen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Karma players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Karma and Shen together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Karma and Shen synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Shen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 47.0% helping carry Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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