Karma with Aphelios
How to Synergize Karma and Aphelios
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Karma Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Karma with Aphelios
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.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Karma Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Karma in LoL
The Karma Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karma sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Karma perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma tries to synergize with Aphelios, she sees a small decrease in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Aphelios does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Aphelios on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Karma in team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Karma that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, overall, Aphelios is a very typical companion for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 47.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Karma and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Karma. That means Karma players should be very careful when enlisting Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Karma and Aphelios together, you will not be granting your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to work well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Karma and Aphelios synergy build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.4% helping carry Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
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