Gnar vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Gnar
based on 1,064 Gnar vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Karma
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some influential Gnar vs. Karma matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karma..
Gnar often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Karma. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Karma
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Who is Better, Gnar or Karma?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when playing against Karma, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a poor counter to Karma.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Karmaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Karma. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar 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 mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually racks up more CS as Karma. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Gnar versus Karma build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Gnar used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Karma than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Karma as Gnar, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Gnar vs Karma clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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