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How to Synergize Karma with Illaoi on the Same TeamKarma is in the b tier of champions

Karma with Illaoi

How to Win With Karma and Illaoi Paired TogetherKarma is in the a tier of champions
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How to Synergize Karma and Illaoi

based on 1,748 Karma with Illaoi pairs
Win Rate
49.9 %
K/D/A
2.52
Pick Rate
1.7 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

At MOBA Champion, we download data from from millions of League of Legends rounds directly from Riot Games each and every week. Karma has fought alongside Illaoi in 1748 recent, competitive matches. By pooling so much accurate data directly from the developers of LoL, we are confident that we can showcase high-quality, accurate builds to help Karma play with Illaoi. It is relatively rare for Karma to play alongside Illaoi as teammates. This pairing has only taken place in approximately 1.7% of games with Karma.

Karma Illaoi Synergy Summary

Karma does a average job of fighting on the same side as Illaoi. On average, she wins an acceptable 49.9% of the time the champions play on the same team. If you want to win more matches as Karma when fighting on the same team as Illaoi by learning how to better synergize your tactics with her, then look into the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Karma vs Illaoi Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionWorld Atlas

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeLost Chapter

Core Karma Items

~22 Mins
MalignanceZaz'Zak's RealmspikeImperial Mandate

Optional Items

Moonstone RenewerArdent CenserStaff of Flowing WaterMorellonomicon

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Karma to level upq
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Second ability for Karma to level upe
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Last skill for Karma to max outw

Runes

SorcerySummon AeryManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
ResolveBone PlatingRevitalize
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Karma's passive ability p
Karma's q ability q
Karma's w ability w
Karma's e ability e
Karma's ultimate ability r
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Illaoi

Tips for Playing as Karma with Illaoi

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 Illaoi Will Play

Vessel

Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.

Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a

is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.

Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.

Karma Illaoi Synergy Stats

Karma Image
Win Rate
49.9 %
VS
Win Rate
50.1 %
Illaoi Image
2.9
< Kills >
3
5.6
< Deaths >
5.6
11.2
< Assists >
11.9
0.62
< Killing Sprees >
0.63
62
< Minions Killed >
66
0.05
< Dragons Killed >
0.05
0.56
< Inhibitors >
0.49
871
< Physical Damage >
984
13,744
< Magic Damage >
13,958
776
< True Damage >
744
15,392
< Damage Dealt >
15,687
18,505
< Damage Taken >
19,133
9,142
< Gold Earned >
9,240
2.01
< Towers >
1.95
0.01
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
2,586
< Total Healing >
2,813
11,259
< Experience >
11,492
51
< Vision Score >
50
22
< Wards Placed >
22
220
< Time Dealing CC >
238

How to Play with Illaoi as Karma in LoL

The Karma Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Illaoi helps Karma perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Karma is paired with Illaoi, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Illaoi does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Illaoi.

Moreover, when Karma plays with Illaoi on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Illaoi does a decent job of covering Karma during teamfights.

Synergies between Karma and Illaoi

Damage Types Compared

Karma
Illaoi
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Karma
Illaoi

Is Karma better when played alongside Illaoi?

There is no top champion pairing for Karma that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Illaoi is a good companion for Karma. By playing on the same team as Karma, she improves their win rate by 1.6% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Karma and Illaoi that results in them performing better together than alone.

Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be very careful when lining up Illaoi teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.

When playing cooperatively, Karma players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.

Conversely, by pairing Karma and Illaoi together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.

Regardless of your Illaoi ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Karma Players

How We Calculated Our Karma Illaoi Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Karma and Illaoi, we analyzed 1,748 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Karma with Illaoi comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to synergize with Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.

The most crucial items to focus on in your Karma and Illaoi synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Illaoi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 49.9% when playing alongside Illaoi with this build.

To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.

By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Illaoi with Karma are presented for all skill levels, merged. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.