Karthus with Karma
How to Synergize Karthus and Karma
based on 1,128 Karthus with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Karma Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Karma
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Karma
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Advice to Understand How Karma Will Play
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.
Karthus Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karthus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karma helps Karthus perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus is paired with Karma, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Karma supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played together with Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Karma on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Karma does a poor job of protecting Karthus in teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Karma
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Karma?
There is no perfect companion for Karthus that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Karma is a very typical teammate for Karthus. By being on the same team as Karthus, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 47.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Karthus and Karma that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be very careful when finding Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Karthus and Karma together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Karma teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karthus to pair well with Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Karthus and Karma synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 47.3% when playing alongside Karma with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Karthus players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
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