Karma with Kassadin
How to Synergize Karma and Kassadin
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Karma Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Karma with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Karma Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Karma in LoL
The Karma Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kassadin helps Karma perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is an ally to Kassadin, she sees a moderate decrease in her total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Kassadin does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Kassadin on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Kassadin does a decent job of protecting Karma during team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no ideal ally for Karma that will always be her #1 ally. However, Kassadin is a very typical teammate for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 48.5%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Karma and Kassadin that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players need to be cautious when arranging Kassadin comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Karma and Kassadin together, you may not be giving your team much AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kassadin teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to work well with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Karma and Kassadin synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kassadin with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Karma players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Karma and Kassadin pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Kassadin with Karma are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.