Zilean with Karma
How to Synergize Zilean and Karma
based on 389 Zilean with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zilean Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Karma
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Karma
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean 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, Zilean 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 fall shows that Karma helps Zilean perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean is paired with Karma, he sees a noticable increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Karma supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played together with Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Karma on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Zilean in team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Karma
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Karma is a below average ally for Zilean. By playing on the same team as Zilean, she lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 48.3%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Zilean and Karma that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be very careful when lining up Karma comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zilean and Karma together, you will not be providing your team a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zilean to pair well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zilean and Karma synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Karma than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karma with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Zilean players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Zilean and Karma pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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