Caitlyn vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Caitlyn
based on 10,079 Caitlyn vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Karma
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Caitlyn in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Caitlyn against Karma counter statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Karma. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Caitlyn normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Karma. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Caitlyn and Karma
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Karma?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Caitlyn usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Caitlyn makes a good counter for Karma.
While Caitlyn does have a higher winrate than Karma, when facing one another, Caitlyn also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Caitlyn into Karma.
Moreover, Caitlyn also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Karma matchups, Caitlyn is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Caitlyn is a decent counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Caitlyn against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Caitlyn to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn on average picks up more CS relative to Karma. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Caitlyn versus Karma build include Lord Dominik's Regards, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 51.0% when playing against Karma with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Karma as Caitlyn, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Caitlyn vs Karma clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
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