Karma with Malzahar
How to Synergize Karma and Malzahar
based on 2,557 Karma with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Karma with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Karma Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Karma in LoL
The Karma Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Karma perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Malzahar, she gets a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This could indicate that Malzahar doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Malzahar on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Karma in teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect synergy for Karma that will always be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a relatively poor ally for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Karma and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you need to be careful when finding Malzahar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Karma players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Karma and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Karma and Malzahar synergy build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 47.0% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Malzahar with Karma are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.