Karma with Skarner
How to Synergize Karma and Skarner
based on 297 Karma with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Skarner Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Karma with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Karma Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Karma in LoL
The Karma Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Karma perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma plays on the same team as Skarner, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Skarner doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Skarner.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Skarner on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Karma during teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Skarner
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Is Karma better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top companion for Karma that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Skarner is a relatively poor ally for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 46.5%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Karma and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be very careful when lining up Skarner teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Karma players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Karma and Skarner together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma in order to pair well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue 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 significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Karma and Skarner synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Horizon Focus. When Karma combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Skarner than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 46.5% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Karma players 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 rune builds players picked for Karma and Skarner pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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