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.
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.
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
The Karma Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vladimir helps Karma perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karma is paired with Vladimir, she observes a moderate decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Vladimir does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played with Vladimir 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 with Vladimir.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Vladimir on the same side, she often takes less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Karma during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Karma that will always be her top ally. Yet, Vladimir is a decent companion for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, he increases their win rate by 2.7% to 51.0%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Karma and Vladimir that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Vladimir teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Karma players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Karma and Vladimir together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Karma to synergize with Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Karma and Vladimir synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Shard of True Ice, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Vladimir than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 51.0% helping carry Vladimir with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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