Hecarim with Karma
How to Synergize Hecarim and Karma
based on 2,675 Hecarim with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Karma Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Karma
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Karma
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Karma helps Hecarim perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim plays on the same team as Karma, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Karma helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played together with Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Karma on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Karma does a poor job of covering Hecarim in team fights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Karma
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best synergy for Hecarim that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Karma is a below average companion for Hecarim. By being on the same side as Hecarim, she drops their win rate by -1.9% to 46.6%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Hecarim and Karma that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players don't need to be careful when enlisting Karma allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Hecarim and Karma together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of support. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Karma ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Hecarim in order to work well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Hecarim and Karma synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Karma than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 46.6% helping carry Karma with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Hecarim players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.6% winrate overall.
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