Karma with Shaco
How to Synergize Karma and Shaco
based on 2,802 Karma with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Karma vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Karma with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Karma Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Karma in LoL
The Karma Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shaco helps Karma perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Shaco, she sees a sizeable uptick in her full damage dealt. This change could signal that Shaco helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Shaco on the same side, 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 Shaco.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Shaco on the same team, she usually takes more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Shaco does a poor job of covering Karma during teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Shaco
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Is Karma better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Karma that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Shaco is a very typical teammate for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 47.3%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Karma and Shaco that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Karma. That means you need to be very careful when finding Shaco teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Karma players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Karma and Shaco together, you may not be giving your other allies much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Shaco ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma to synergize with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Karma and Shaco synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Shaco than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Shaco with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Karma players should equip 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 this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Shaco with Karma are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.