Lucian with Karma
How to Synergize Lucian and Karma
based on 5,490 Lucian with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Karma Synergy Summary
Best Lucian vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Karma
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Karma
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karma helps Lucian perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lucian plays on the same team as Karma, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Karma does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played alongside Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Karma on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Karma does a decent job of covering Lucian in team fights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Karma?
There is no top companion for Lucian that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Karma is a relatively poor ally for Lucian. By locking into the same side as Lucian, she drops their win rate by -1.4% to 47.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Lucian and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players don't need to be cautious when lining up Karma allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, Lucian players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Lucian and Karma together, you may not be providing your side much attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian in order to work well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Lucian and Karma synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Essence Reaver, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian included at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Karma than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 47.4% helping carry Karma with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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