Karma with Kindred
How to Synergize Karma and Kindred
based on 1,866 Karma with Kindred pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Kindred Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Karma with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Karma Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Karma in LoL
The Karma Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kindred helps Karma perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is an ally to Kindred, she observes a little decrease in her complete damage output. This change could indicate that Kindred does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Kindred 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 with Kindred.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Kindred on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Karma during teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Karma that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kindred is a very typical companion for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, they decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 47.4%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Karma and Kindred that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Kindred teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Karma and Kindred together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma to work well with Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Karma and Kindred synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Kindred than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kindred with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Karma players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Karma and Kindred pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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