Karma with Zed
How to Synergize Karma and Zed
based on 3,403 Karma with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Zed Synergy Summary
Best Karma vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Zed
Tips for Playing as Karma with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Karma Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Karma in LoL
The Karma Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Karma perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Zed, she sees a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This may indicate that Zed does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Zed 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 Zed.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Zed on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Karma during teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Zed
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Is Karma better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect synergy for Karma that will no matter what be her top ally. However, Zed is a relatively poor companion for Karma. By playing on the same team as Karma, he drops their win rate by -2.6% to 45.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Karma and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players should be careful when enlisting Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Karma players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Karma and Zed together, you may not be giving your side a lot of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 in order to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Karma and Zed synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Zed than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 45.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.7% winrate overall.
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