Karma with Rakan
How to Synergize Karma and Rakan
based on 648 Karma with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Karma with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Karma Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Karma in LoL
The Karma Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rakan helps Karma perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma plays on the same team as Rakan, she sees a big jump in her complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Rakan helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Rakan.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Rakan on the same team, she typically takes more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Rakan does a poor job of protecting Karma during teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top synergy for Karma that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Rakan is a very typical companion for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, he improves their win rate by 0.2% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Karma and Rakan that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Rakan teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Karma and Rakan together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Rakan ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karma to work well with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Karma and Rakan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Rakan with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing 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 runes that we analyzed for Karma and Rakan pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Rakan with Karma are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.