Karma with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Karma and Rek'Sai
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Karma Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Karma with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Karma Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Karma in LoL
The Karma Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rek'Sai helps Karma perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is an ally to Rek'Sai, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Rek'Sai doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Rek'Sai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Rek'Sai.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Karma in teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Rek'Sai
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Is Karma better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no one best champion pairing for Karma that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Rek'Sai is a very typical teammate for Karma. By being on the same side as Karma, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 48.2%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Karma and Rek'Sai that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Rek'Sai allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Karma and Rek'Sai together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Rek'Sai teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to pair well with Rek'Sai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Karma and Rek'Sai synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Rek'Sai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 48.2% when playing alongside Rek'Sai with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Karma players should equip 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 order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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