Zed with Karma
How to Synergize Zed and Karma
based on 3,403 Zed with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Karma Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Karma
Tips for Playing as Zed with Karma
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karma helps Zed perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is an ally to Karma, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Karma helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Karma on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Karma does a decent job of protecting Zed during teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Karma
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Is Zed better when played alongside Karma?
There is no ideal synergy for Zed that will always be his top ally. However, Karma is a relatively poor ally for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, she decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 45.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Zed and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when finding Karma allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Zed players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Zed and Karma together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Karma ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to pair well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Zed and Karma synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Zed incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Karma than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 45.7% helping carry Karma with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.7% winrate overall.
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