Karma with Swain
How to Synergize Karma and Swain
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Karma Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Swain
Tips for Playing as Karma with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Karma Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Karma in LoL
The Karma Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Karma perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Swain, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Swain helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Swain 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 Swain.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Swain on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Karma during team fights.
Synergies between Karma and Swain
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Is Karma better when played alongside Swain?
There is no one best synergy for Karma that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, Swain is a top-tier ally for Karma. By playing on the same side as Karma, he increases their win rate by 3.3% to 51.6%. This proves that there is a very strong bond between Karma and Swain that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players should be cautious when lining up Swain teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Karma and Swain together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 pair well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Karma and Swain synergy build consist of Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 51.6% when playing alongside Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Karma and Swain pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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