Rakan with Karma
How to Synergize Rakan and Karma
based on 648 Rakan with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Karma Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Karma
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Karma
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan sees a large worsening in his 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 Rakan perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is an ally to Karma, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change 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 Rakan is played together with 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 with Karma.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Karma on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Karma does a poor job of covering Rakan in teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and Karma
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Karma?
There is no perfect companion for Rakan that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Karma is a not very good companion for Rakan. By locking into the same side as Rakan, she drops their win rate by -2.1% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Rakan and Karma that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be very careful when lining up Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Rakan and Karma together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan to synergize with Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Rakan and Karma synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Karma than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karma with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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