Diana vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Diana
based on 3,785 Diana vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Karma
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Diana in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some important Diana vs. Karma matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between these two champions. Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s ratio of NaN, showing that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Karma. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Diana usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Karma. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Diana and Karma
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Who is Better, Diana or Karma?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Diana usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Karma, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Diana makes an ok counter to Karma.
While Diana does have a higher winrate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Diana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Diana into Karma.
Additionally, Diana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Diana vs Karma matchups, Diana is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Diana is a decent counter to Karma. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Diana to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana often gets more CS compared to Karma. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Diana versus Karma build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Diana combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Karma than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Karma with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Karma as Diana, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Diana vs Karma face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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