Karma with Graves
How to Synergize Karma and Graves
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Karma Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Graves
Tips for Playing as Karma with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Karma Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Karma in LoL
The Karma Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Karma perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is an ally to Graves, she observes a little drop in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Graves does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Graves on the same team, 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 Graves.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Graves on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Karma in teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Graves?
There is no ideal ally for Karma that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. Yet, Graves is a very typical ally for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 48.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Karma and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be very careful when finding Graves teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Karma players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Karma and Graves together, you may not be providing your other allies very much utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Graves 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, 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 work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Karma and Graves synergy build consist of Morellonomicon, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Graves than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Graves with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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