Tristana with Karma
How to Synergize Tristana and Karma
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Tristana Karma Synergy Summary
Best Tristana vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Karma
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Karma
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana 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, Tristana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karma helps Tristana perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tristana is paired with Karma, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Karma does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played together with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Karma.
Moreover, when Tristana plays with Karma on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Karma does a decent job of protecting Tristana during team fights.
Synergies between Tristana and Karma
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Karma?
There is no top ally for Tristana that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Karma is a relatively poor companion for Tristana. By being on the same team as Tristana, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.4%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Tristana and Karma that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Tristana. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Karma comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Tristana players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Tristana and Karma together, you may not be granting your side a lot of crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Tristana in order to synergize with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Tristana and Karma synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Karma than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 47.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Tristana and Karma pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Karma with Tristana are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.