Kai'Sa vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Kai'Sa
based on 3,894 Kai'Sa vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Karma
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats provided here show several valuable Kai'Sa versus Karma matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between these two champs. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Karma
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Karma?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Karma, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter for Karma.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kai'Sa into Karma.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a terribly counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically accumulates more CS relative to Karma. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Karma build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa used at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Karma than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when playing against Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Karma as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Kai'Sa vs Karma fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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