Karma with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Karma and Kai'Sa
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Karma Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Karma with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Karma Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Karma in LoL
The Karma Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kai'Sa helps Karma perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma plays on the same team as Kai'Sa, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Kai'Sa helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Kai'Sa 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 alongside Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kai'Sa does a poor job of covering Karma during team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no perfect ally for Karma that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Kai'Sa is a terrible teammate for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, she lowers their win rate by -3.6% to 44.7%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Karma and Kai'Sa that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players must be very careful when lining up Kai'Sa comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Karma and Kai'Sa together, you may not be giving your other allies much utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kai'Sa teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma in order to pair well with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Karma and Kai'Sa synergy build include Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Karma used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Kai'Sa than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 44.7% helping carry Kai'Sa with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.7% winrate overall.
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