Warwick with Karma
How to Synergize Warwick and Karma
based on 3,914 Warwick with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Warwick Karma Synergy Summary
Best Warwick vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Warwick and Karma
Tips for Playing as Warwick with Karma
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Warwick in LoL
The Warwick 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, Warwick 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 negative change shows that Karma helps Warwick perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Warwick is an ally to Karma, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Karma supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Warwick is played with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Moreover, when Warwick plays with Karma on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Karma does a decent job of protecting Warwick in teamfights.
Synergies between Warwick and Karma
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Is Warwick better when played alongside Karma?
There is no ideal companion for Warwick that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Karma is a very typical companion for Warwick. By locking into the same side as Warwick, she lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 49.2%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Warwick and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Warwick. That means you should be cautious when finding Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, Warwick players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Warwick and Karma together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Warwick in order to work well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Warwick and Karma synergy build include Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Warwick combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Karma than with most other common builds. In fact, Warwick had an average winrate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karma with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Warwick and Karma pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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