Alistar vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Alistar
based on 1,597 Alistar vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Karma
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Alistar vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here feature several influential Alistar versus Karma counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karma..
Alistar often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Karma. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Karma
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Who is Better, Alistar or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when playing against Karma, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes an ok counter for Karma.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Karma, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Karmaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Karma matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter for Karma. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically gets less CS relative to Karma. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Alistar versus Karma build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Karma than with most other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Karma with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Karma as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Alistar vs Karma clashes, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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