Olaf with Karma
How to Synergize Olaf and Karma
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Olaf Karma Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Karma
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Karma
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf 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, Olaf sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karma helps Olaf perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf is an ally to Karma, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Karma helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played with 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 with Karma.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Karma on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Karma does a decent job of covering Olaf during team fights.
Synergies between Olaf and Karma
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Karma?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Olaf that will always be his ideal ally. However, Karma is a pretty good teammate for Olaf. By being on the same team as Olaf, she improves their win rate by 2.7% to 51.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Olaf and Karma that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Olaf. That means you must be very careful when lining up Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, Olaf players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Olaf and Karma together, you may not be granting your side very much utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Olaf in order to work well with Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Olaf and Karma synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Karma than with most other common item sets. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 51.7% helping carry Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.7% winrate overall.
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