Karma vs Aatrox
How to Beat Aatrox as Karma
based on 5,398 Karma vs Aatrox matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Aatrox Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aatrox as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Aatrox
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Advice to Win Against Aatrox
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Karma vs Aatrox Counter Stats
How to Counter Aatrox with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Karma against Aatrox counter statistics that can help us realize the differences between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aatrox’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Aatrox. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Aatrox. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Aatrox
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Who is Better, Karma or Aatrox?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Aatrox, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Karma makes an ok counter to Aatrox.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Aatrox, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Aatrox.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Aatrox. Focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Aatrox.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often racks up less CS compared to Aatrox. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Karma versus Aatrox build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Aatrox than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Aatrox with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Aatrox as Karma, Karma players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Karma vs Aatrox battles, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Aatrox as Karma are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.