Volibear with Karma
How to Synergize Volibear and Karma
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Volibear Karma Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Karma
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.
Volibear Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear 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 decrease shows that Karma helps Volibear perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear plays on the same team as Karma, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Karma provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played together with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Moreover, when Volibear plays with Karma on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Karma does a poor job of protecting Volibear in teamfights.
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best ally for Volibear that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Karma is a below average teammate for Volibear. By locking into the same team as Volibear, she decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 46.7%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Volibear and Karma that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Volibear. That means Volibear players should be careful when lining up Karma teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Volibear players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Volibear and Karma together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Volibear in order to pair well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Volibear and Karma synergy build include Spirit Visage, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Karma than with most other common item sets. In fact, Volibear boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when playing alongside Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Volibear and Karma pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Karma with Volibear are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.