Karma with Vi
How to Synergize Karma and Vi
based on 2,997 Karma with Vi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Vi Synergy Summary
Best Karma vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Vi
Tips for Playing as Karma with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Karma Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Karma in LoL
The Karma Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vi helps Karma perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma plays on the same team as Vi, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Vi helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Vi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Vi. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Vi.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Vi on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Vi does a decent job of protecting Karma during team fights.
Synergies between Karma and Vi
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Is Karma better when played alongside Vi?
There is no one best champion pairing for Karma that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Vi is a good companion for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, she increases their win rate by 1.5% to 49.8%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Karma and Vi that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Vi has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be careful when arranging Vi allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Karma players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Karma and Vi together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Vi ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma to pair well with Vi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Karma and Vi synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Karma incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Vi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 49.8% helping carry Vi with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating 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 builds we have analyed for Karma and Vi pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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