Varus with Karma
How to Synergize Varus and Karma
based on 4,512 Varus with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Varus Karma Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Karma
Tips for Playing as Varus with Karma
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus 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 Varus perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus is an ally to Karma, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Karma supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played together with Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Karma.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Karma on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Karma does a decent job of covering Varus in team fights.
Synergies between Varus and Karma
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Is Varus better when played alongside Karma?
There is no perfect synergy for Varus that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Karma is a relatively poor teammate for Varus. By locking into the same team as Varus, she lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 47.3%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Varus and Karma that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Varus. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Karma comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Varus players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Varus and Karma together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Karma ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to pair well with Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Varus and Karma synergy build include Muramana, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Varus combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Karma than with most other common builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Varus players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
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