Karma with Viktor
How to Synergize Karma and Viktor
based on 1,238 Karma with Viktor pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Viktor Synergy Summary
Best Karma vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Viktor
Tips for Playing as Karma with Viktor
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 Viktor Will Play
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Karma Viktor Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viktor as Karma in LoL
The Karma Viktor synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viktor, 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 Viktor. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Viktor helps Karma perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is an ally to Viktor, she gets a moderate decrease in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Viktor does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Viktor on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Viktor. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Viktor.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Viktor on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Viktor does a decent job of covering Karma during teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Viktor
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Is Karma better when played alongside Viktor?
There is no one best companion for Karma that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. However, overall, Viktor is a very typical ally for Karma. By being on the same side as Karma, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Karma and Viktor that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Viktor has a much greater difficulty compared to Karma. That means Karma players should be cautious when lining up Viktor comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Karma and Viktor together, you will not be granting your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Viktor ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to work well with Viktor during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Karma and Viktor synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Viktor than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Viktor with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Karma players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Karma and Viktor pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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