Katarina with Karma
How to Synergize Katarina and Karma
based on 3,051 Katarina with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Karma Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Karma
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Karma
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Understand How Karma Will Play
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.
Katarina Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Katarina sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karma helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Karma, she observes a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Karma provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Karma on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Karma does a poor job of covering Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Karma
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best companion for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, Karma is a relatively poor ally for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, she drops their win rate by -2.5% to 46.3%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Katarina and Karma that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karma has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Karma comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, Katarina players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Katarina and Karma together, you will not be providing your side very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to work well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Katarina and Karma synergy build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Karma than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 46.3% when playing alongside Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.3% winrate overall.
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