Karma with Irelia
How to Synergize Karma and Irelia
based on 2,517 Karma with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Karma vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Karma with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Karma Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Karma in LoL
The Karma Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Karma perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma plays on the same team as Irelia, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Irelia doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Irelia on the same side, 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 with Irelia.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Irelia on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Karma during team fights.
Synergies between Karma and Irelia
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Is Karma better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Karma that will always be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Irelia is a very typical companion for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, she drops their win rate by -0.9% to 47.4%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Karma and Irelia that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Irelia teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Karma players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Karma and Irelia together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia teammate, 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to pair well with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Karma and Irelia synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Irelia than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when playing alongside Irelia with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Karma players 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 combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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