Karma vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Karma
based on 5,831 Karma vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Akali
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 Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Karma vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some critical Karma vs. Akali counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Akali. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Akali. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Akali
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Who is Better, Karma or Akali?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when trying to fight Akali, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter to Akali.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Akali, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Akali.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Akali. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually gets less CS as Akali. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Karma versus Akali build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Akali than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 48.3% battling Akali with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Akali as Karma, Karma players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Karma vs Akali battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Akali as Karma are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.