Diana vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Diana
based on 4,269 Diana vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Karma Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Karma as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Karma
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.
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Advice to Win Against Karma
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.
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.
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Diana vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Diana in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some influential Diana versus Karma matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Karma. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Diana typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives more damage than Karma. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Diana and Karma
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Who is Better, Diana or Karma?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Diana usually wins when taking on Karma, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Diana makes a good counter for Karma.
While Diana does have a higher winrate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Diana into Karma.
Moreover, Diana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Diana vs Karma matchups, Diana is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Diana is a good counter for Karma. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to 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
To truly master Diana to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana typically accumulates more CS relative to Karma. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Diana versus Karma build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Demonic Embrace, and Shadowflame. When Diana included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Karma than with many other common item sets. In fact, Diana had an average winrate of 52.9% when playing against Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Karma as Diana, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Diana vs Karma counters, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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