Karma with Vladimir
How to Synergize Karma and Vladimir
based on 2,606 Karma with Vladimir pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Vladimir Synergy Summary
Best Karma vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Karma with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
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.
Karma Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Karma in LoL
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 went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vladimir helps Karma perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is an ally to Vladimir, she gets a measurable drop in her complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Vladimir does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support 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 than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Vladimir.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Vladimir on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Karma during teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Karma that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Vladimir is a very typical companion for Karma. By locking into the same team as Karma, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 48.7%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Karma and Vladimir that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players need to be very careful when arranging Vladimir teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, Karma players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Karma and Vladimir together, you may not be providing your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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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 work well with Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Karma and Vladimir synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Vladimir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 48.7% helping carry Vladimir with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Karma and Vladimir pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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