Karma with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Karma and Lee Sin
based on 3,166 Karma with Lee Sin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Lee Sin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Karma with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Karma Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Karma in LoL
The Karma Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lee Sin helps Karma perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Lee Sin, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This change could signal that Lee Sin does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Lee Sin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Lee Sin on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Lee Sin does a decent job of protecting Karma in teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no perfect synergy for Karma that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Lee Sin is a terrible teammate for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, he drops their win rate by -3.8% to 44.5%. This shows that there is a very bad synergy between Karma and Lee Sin that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lee Sin has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you must be very careful when arranging Lee Sin comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, Karma players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Karma and Lee Sin together, you probably will not be giving your side much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Lee Sin ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma in order to synergize with Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Karma and Lee Sin synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Lee Sin than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 44.5% helping carry Lee Sin with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Karma and Lee Sin pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.5% winrate overall.
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