Irelia vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Irelia
based on 2,791 Irelia vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Karma
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown here feature some vital Irelia against Karma counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia 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.
Irelia typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Karma. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Karma
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Who is Better, Irelia or Karma?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually wins when playing against Karma, with a 53.0% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes a good counter to Karma.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Irelia into Karma.
Moreover, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Karma matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Irelia is an above average counter for Karma. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often racks up much more CS compared to Karma. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Karma build include Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Karma than with most other common item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 53.0% when countering Karma with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Karma as Irelia, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Irelia vs Karma LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.0% win rate overall.
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