Karma with Lucian
How to Synergize Karma and Lucian
based on 5,490 Karma with Lucian pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Karma with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Karma Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Karma in LoL
The Karma Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lucian helps Karma perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is paired with Lucian, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This may signal that Lucian helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Lucian.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Lucian on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Lucian does a decent job of protecting Karma during teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no ideal synergy for Karma that will no matter what be her best ally. Yet, Lucian is a very typical ally for Karma. By being on the same side as Karma, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 47.4%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Karma and Lucian that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Lucian has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players need to be very careful when lining up Lucian teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Karma and Lucian together, you will not be providing your other allies much AD. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to pair well with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Karma and Lucian synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Lucian than with many other common builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when playing alongside Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Karma players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
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