Karma with Zilean
How to Synergize Karma and Zilean
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Karma Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Karma with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Karma Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Karma in LoL
The Karma Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Karma perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is an ally to Zilean, she gets a massive increase in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Zilean helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played together with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Zilean on the same side, she on average receives much more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Karma during teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect ally for Karma that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, Zilean is a very typical ally for Karma. By being on the same team as Karma, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Karma and Zilean that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you should be very careful when arranging Zilean allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Karma and Zilean together, you probably will not be providing your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karma to pair well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Karma and Zilean synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Horizon Focus. When Karma bought at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 combinations players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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