Karma with Kayle
How to Synergize Karma and Kayle
based on 2,415 Karma with Kayle pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Kayle Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Kayle
Tips for Playing as Karma with Kayle
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 Kayle Will Play
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Karma Kayle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayle as Karma in LoL
The Karma Kayle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayle, 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 Kayle. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kayle helps Karma perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is an ally to Kayle, she gets a measurable drop in her full damage output. This could signal that Kayle does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Kayle 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 alongside Kayle.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Kayle on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Kayle does a decent job of covering Karma in teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Kayle?
There is no ideal companion for Karma that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, Kayle is a decent companion for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, she raises their win rate by 1.1% to 49.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Karma and Kayle that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Kayle has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players should be cautious when enlisting Kayle allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Karma and Kayle together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kayle teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to work well with Kayle during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Karma and Kayle synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Kayle than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when playing alongside Kayle with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Karma and Kayle pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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