Karma with Wukong
How to Synergize Karma and Wukong
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Karma Wukong Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Karma with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Karma Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Karma in LoL
The Karma Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Wukong helps Karma perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is an ally to Wukong, she gets a small decrease in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Wukong does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Wukong 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 Wukong.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Wukong on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Wukong does a poor job of covering Karma in teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no one best ally for Karma that will always be her best ally. Yet, overall, Wukong is a relatively poor ally for Karma. By playing on the same team as Karma, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 46.4%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Karma and Wukong that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Wukong has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be careful when arranging Wukong teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Karma and Wukong together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Wukong ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to work well with Wukong during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Karma and Wukong synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Wukong than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 46.4% helping carry Wukong with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.4% winrate overall.
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