Karma with Karthus
How to Synergize Karma and Karthus
based on 1,128 Karma with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karma with Karthus
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 Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Karma Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Karma in LoL
The Karma Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, 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 Karthus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Karma perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is an ally to Karthus, she sees a little decrease in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Karthus does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Karthus 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 Karthus.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Karthus on the same side, she usually receives more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Karma during teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Karthus
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Is Karma better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best ally for Karma that will always be her #1 ally. However, overall, Karthus is a very typical teammate for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 47.3%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Karma and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players must be cautious when lining up Karthus teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Karma and Karthus together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 pair well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Karma and Karthus synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Karthus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 47.3% helping carry Karthus with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for Karma and Karthus pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
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