Karma with Sona
How to Synergize Karma and Sona
based on 665 Karma with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Sona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Sona
Tips for Playing as Karma with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Karma Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Karma in LoL
The Karma Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sona helps Karma perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma tries to synergize with Sona, she gets a massive increase in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Sona supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Sona.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Sona on the same team, she often takes more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Sona does a poor job of covering Karma during teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Sona
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Is Karma better when played alongside Sona?
There is no one best ally for Karma that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Sona is a relatively poor teammate for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, she lowers their win rate by -2.9% to 45.4%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Karma and Sona that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be very careful when arranging Sona teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Karma players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Karma and Sona together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Sona teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to synergize with Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Karma and Sona synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma included at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Sona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 45.4% when playing alongside Sona with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Karma and Sona pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.4% win rate overall.
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