Poppy with Karma
How to Synergize Poppy and Karma
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Poppy Karma Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Karma
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Karma
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karma helps Poppy perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Karma, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Karma helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Karma.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Karma on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of protecting Poppy during teamfights.
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best companion for Poppy that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Karma is a not very good ally for Poppy. By locking into the same team as Poppy, she drops their win rate by -1.8% to 47.9%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Poppy and Karma that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Karma comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Poppy and Karma together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy to pair well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Poppy and Karma synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Poppy included at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Karma than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Poppy players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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