Ryze with Karma
How to Synergize Ryze and Karma
based on 695 Ryze with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ryze Karma Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Karma
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Karma
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze 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, Ryze sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karma helps Ryze perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ryze plays on the same team as Karma, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Karma helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Moreover, when Ryze plays with Karma on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Karma does a poor job of protecting Ryze in teamfights.
Synergies between Ryze and Karma
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Karma?
There is no perfect ally for Ryze that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Karma is a relatively poor companion for Ryze. By being on the same team as Ryze, she decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 47.3%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Ryze and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Ryze. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Karma comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Ryze and Karma together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Karma ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold 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
If you would like to truly master Ryze in order to work well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Ryze and Karma synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Karma than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 47.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karma with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Ryze players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Ryze and Karma pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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