Karma with Garen
How to Synergize Karma and Garen
based on 3,593 Karma with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Garen Synergy Summary
Best Karma vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Garen
Tips for Playing as Karma with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Karma Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Karma in LoL
The Karma Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Garen helps Karma perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma plays on the same team as Garen, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Garen provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Garen on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of covering Karma during team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Garen?
There is no top companion for Karma that will always be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Garen is a very typical teammate for Karma. By being on the same side as Karma, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 47.7%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Karma and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Garen allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Karma players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Karma and Garen together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma in order to synergize with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Karma and Garen synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 47.7% helping carry Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Karma players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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