Karma with Poppy
How to Synergize Karma and Poppy
based on 1,623 Karma with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Karma vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Karma with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Karma Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Karma in LoL
The Karma Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Poppy helps Karma perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is paired with Poppy, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Poppy provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Poppy on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Poppy. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Poppy on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Poppy does a poor job of covering Karma in team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Karma that will always be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Poppy is a very typical companion for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, she lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 47.9%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Karma and Poppy that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Poppy has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you should be cautious when arranging Poppy allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Karma players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Karma and Poppy together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Poppy teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to work well with Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Karma and Poppy synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Poppy than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Poppy with this build.
To have the best probability 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Karma and Poppy pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Poppy with Karma are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.