Lee Sin with Karma
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Karma
based on 3,166 Lee Sin with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lee Sin Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Karma
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Karma
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karma helps Lee Sin perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lee Sin plays on the same team as Karma, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Karma supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played alongside Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Lee Sin plays with Karma on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Karma does a decent job of protecting Lee Sin during teamfights.
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Karma?
There is no ideal ally for Lee Sin that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Karma is a below average teammate for Lee Sin. By locking into the same team as Lee Sin, she drops their win rate by -2.8% to 44.5%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Lee Sin and Karma that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Lee Sin. That means Lee Sin players don't need to be very careful when arranging Karma allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, Lee Sin players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Lee Sin and Karma together, you probably will not be giving your side enough sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lee Sin in order to work well with Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Lee Sin and Karma synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Karma than with many other typical builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 44.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karma with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Karma with Lee Sin are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.