Karma with Kennen
How to Synergize Karma and Kennen
based on 920 Karma with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Karma with Kennen
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 Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Karma Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Karma in LoL
The Karma Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, 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 Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kennen helps Karma perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Kennen, she observes a moderate decrease in her complete damage output. This may signal that Kennen does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Kennen on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Kennen does a decent job of protecting Karma during teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Kennen
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Is Karma better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Karma that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, Kennen is a relatively poor teammate for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 45.9%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Karma and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be very careful when finding Kennen teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Karma players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Karma and Kennen together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 pair well with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Karma and Kennen synergy build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Kennen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when playing alongside Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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