Wukong with Karma
How to Synergize Wukong and Karma
based on 1,157 Wukong with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Wukong Karma Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Karma
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Karma
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong 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, Wukong sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karma helps Wukong perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Wukong tries to synergize with Karma, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Karma helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played with 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 with Karma.
Moreover, when Wukong plays with Karma on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of protecting Wukong during team fights.
Synergies between Wukong and Karma
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best synergy for Wukong that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Karma is a below average teammate for Wukong. By locking into the same side as Wukong, she lowers their win rate by -3.0% to 46.4%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Wukong and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Wukong. That means Wukong players should be cautious when finding Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Wukong players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Wukong and Karma together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Karma ally, 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Wukong to pair well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Wukong and Karma synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Karma than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Wukong boasted an average win rate of 46.4% helping carry Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.4% win rate overall.
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