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.
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.
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The Karma Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Olaf helps Karma perform worse 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 Olaf, she sees a little decrease in her full damage output. This could signal that Olaf does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Olaf on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Karma in teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Karma that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, Olaf is a decent companion for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 49.6%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Karma and Olaf that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Olaf comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Karma players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Karma and Olaf together, you will not be giving your other allies very much crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to pair well with Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Karma and Olaf synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Shard of True Ice. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Olaf than with most other common builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Karma players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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