Shaco with Karma
How to Synergize Shaco and Karma
based on 2,802 Shaco with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Karma Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Karma
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Karma
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco 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 drop shows that Karma helps Shaco perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is an ally to Karma, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This change may signal that Karma supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco 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 synergisticly with Karma.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Karma on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Shaco in team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Karma
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Karma?
There is no perfect companion for Shaco that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Karma is a below average teammate for Shaco. By locking into the same side as Shaco, she decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 47.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Shaco and Karma that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karma has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Karma teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Shaco players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Shaco and Karma together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Karma ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shaco to synergize with Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Shaco and Karma synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 47.3% helping carry Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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