Karma with Yorick
How to Synergize Karma and Yorick
based on 2,063 Karma with Yorick pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Yorick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Karma with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Karma Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Karma in LoL
The Karma Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yorick helps Karma perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Yorick, she sees a little drop in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Yorick doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Yorick 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 synergisticly with Yorick.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Yorick on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Karma in team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no perfect synergy for Karma that will always be her #1 ally. However, Yorick is a very typical ally for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 47.4%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Karma and Yorick that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players should be cautious when finding Yorick teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Karma and Yorick together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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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 Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Karma and Yorick synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Yorick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 47.4% when playing alongside Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Karma and Yorick pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Yorick with Karma are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.