Karma with Malphite
How to Synergize Karma and Malphite
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Karma Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Karma with Malphite
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 Malphite Will Play
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
Karma Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Karma in LoL
The Karma Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, 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 Malphite. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malphite helps Karma perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma plays on the same team as Malphite, she sees a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Malphite does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Malphite 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 alongside Malphite.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Malphite on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Malphite does a decent job of covering Karma in team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no ideal synergy for Karma that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, Malphite is a very typical ally for Karma. By playing on the same team as Karma, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 47.3%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Karma and Malphite that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be cautious when arranging Malphite teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability 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 Malphite together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough attack damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma to pair well with Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Karma and Malphite synergy build include Morellonomicon, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Malphite than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 47.3% helping carry Malphite with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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