Karma with Tristana
How to Synergize Karma and Tristana
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Karma Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Karma with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Karma Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Karma in LoL
The Karma Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tristana helps Karma perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma tries to synergize with Tristana, she observes a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Tristana does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Tristana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Tristana.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Tristana on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Tristana does a decent job of covering Karma in team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no one best companion for Karma that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, overall, Tristana is a very typical companion for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, she lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 47.4%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Karma and Tristana that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Tristana allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Karma and Tristana together, you will not be giving your team very much crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma in order to synergize with Tristana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Karma and Tristana synergy build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Tristana than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 47.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tristana with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Karma players should use 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Tristana with Karma are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.