Karma vs Akshan
How to Beat Akshan as Karma
based on 1,847 Karma vs Akshan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Akshan Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akshan as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Akshan
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.
Karma vs Akshan Counter Stats
How to Counter Akshan with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some critical Karma vs. Akshan counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akshan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Akshan. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Akshan. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Akshan
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Who is Better, Karma or Akshan?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when taking on Akshan, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a poor counter to Akshan.
While Karma does have a lower winrate than Akshan, when facing one another, Karma also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Akshan.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akshan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Akshan matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Akshan. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Akshan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Akshan during both the early game 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 listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often racks up less CS as Akshan. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Karma versus Akshan build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Akshan than with many other common builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 48.1% battling Akshan with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Akshan as Karma, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Karma vs Akshan face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Akshan as Karma are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.