Karma vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Karma
based on 3,377 Karma vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Karma vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some important Karma vs. Bard counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Bard..
Karma often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Bard
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Who is Better, Karma or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Karma does have a lower winrate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Bard.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a trash counter to Bard. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often racks up more CS relative to Bard. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Karma versus Bard build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Bard than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Bard with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Bard as Karma, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Karma vs Bard counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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