Karma with Kayn
How to Synergize Karma and Kayn
based on 4,707 Karma with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Kayn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Karma with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Karma Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Karma in LoL
The Karma Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayn helps Karma perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma plays on the same team as Kayn, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Kayn provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayn.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Kayn on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kayn does a poor job of protecting Karma during team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Karma that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Kayn is a very typical ally for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Karma and Kayn that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you should be careful when finding Kayn allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Karma and Kayn together, you will not be giving your other teammates much AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma to pair well with Kayn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Karma and Kayn synergy build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Kayn than with most other common builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 47.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kayn with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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