Karma with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Karma and Cho'Gath
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Karma Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Karma with Cho'Gath
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 Cho'Gath Will Play
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
Karma Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Karma in LoL
The Karma Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Cho'Gath helps Karma perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma plays on the same team as Cho'Gath, she sees a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Cho'Gath does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Karma during teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no perfect ally for Karma that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a below average companion for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Karma and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be very careful when finding Cho'Gath teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Karma players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Karma and Cho'Gath together, you may not be giving your side very much AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma to work well with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Karma and Cho'Gath synergy build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 46.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Cho'Gath with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Karma players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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