Karma with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Karma and Kog'Maw
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Karma Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Karma with Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Karma Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Karma in LoL
The Karma Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kog'Maw helps Karma perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma plays on the same team as Kog'Maw, she observes a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Kog'Maw does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Kog'Maw 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 with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Karma in team fights.
Synergies between Karma and Kog'Maw
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Is Karma better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no top ally for Karma that will always be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kog'Maw is a very typical teammate for Karma. By playing on the same team as Karma, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 48.5%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Karma and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players must be cautious when arranging Kog'Maw allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Karma and Kog'Maw together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 synergize with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Karma and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kog'Maw with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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