Karma with Bard
How to Synergize Karma and Bard
based on 799 Karma with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Bard
Tips for Playing as Karma with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Karma Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Karma in LoL
The Karma Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Karma perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma tries to synergize with Bard, she sees a big jump in her full damage output. This could indicate that Bard provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Bard on the same side, she typically takes significantly more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Karma during team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect synergy for Karma that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Bard is a good companion for Karma. By being on the same side as Karma, he raises their win rate by 2.3% to 50.6%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Karma and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Karma. That means Karma players must be very careful when lining up Bard allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, Karma players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Karma and Bard together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 to pair well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Karma and Bard synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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