Karma with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Karma and Tahm Kench
based on 1,824 Karma with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Karma with Tahm Kench
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 Tahm Kench Will Play
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Karma Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Karma in LoL
The Karma Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, 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 Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tahm Kench helps Karma perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, she observes a small increase in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Tahm Kench provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of covering Karma in teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Tahm Kench
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Is Karma better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top companion for Karma that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Tahm Kench is a pretty good teammate for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, he raises their win rate by 1.4% to 49.7%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Karma and Tahm Kench that results in them performing better together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players don't need to be cautious when arranging Tahm Kench teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Karma and Tahm Kench together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Tahm Kench ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Karma and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Morellonomicon, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 49.7% helping carry Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating 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 Karma and Tahm Kench pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Tahm Kench with Karma are given for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.