Nasus with Karma
How to Synergize Nasus and Karma
based on 2,602 Nasus with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Karma Synergy Summary
Best Nasus vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Karma
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Karma
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus 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, Nasus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karma helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is an ally to Karma, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Karma helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Karma.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Karma on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Karma does a decent job of covering Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Karma?
There is no top synergy for Nasus that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Karma is a not very good companion for Nasus. By being on the same team as Nasus, she drops their win rate by -1.5% to 48.8%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Nasus and Karma that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be cautious when arranging Karma comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Nasus players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nasus and Karma together, you probably will not be granting your side enough AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to work well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Nasus and Karma synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Force of Nature. When Nasus used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Karma than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Karma with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Karma with Nasus are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.