Malzahar with Karma
How to Synergize Malzahar and Karma
based on 2,557 Malzahar with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Karma Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Karma
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Karma
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malzahar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karma helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Karma, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Karma provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Karma on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Malzahar in teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best ally for Malzahar that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Karma is a terrible companion for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, she decreases their win rate by -3.5% to 47.0%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Malzahar and Karma that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Karma comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, Malzahar players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Karma together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to work well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Malzahar and Karma synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Malignance. When Malzahar used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Karma with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Malzahar and Karma pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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