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.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Karma Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ziggs helps Karma perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma tries to synergize with Ziggs, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This could indicate that Ziggs does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Ziggs on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Ziggs.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Ziggs on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Ziggs does a poor job of protecting Karma during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Karma that will no matter what be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Ziggs is a very bad companion for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, he drops their win rate by -4.0% to 44.3%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Karma and Ziggs that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Ziggs has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Ziggs allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Karma and Ziggs together, you will not be giving your side a lot of AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Karma to pair well with Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra 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 top finished items to focus on in your Karma and Ziggs synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 44.3% when playing alongside Ziggs with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Karma players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.3% winrate overall.
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