Karma vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Karma
based on 10,079 Karma vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Karma vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Karma against Caitlyn matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Caitlyn’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Caitlyn. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Caitlyn. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Karma or Caitlyn?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when facing off against Caitlyn, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter for Caitlyn.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Caitlyn, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Caitlyn.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Caitlyn matchups, Caitlyn is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Caitlyn. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often picks up less CS compared to Caitlyn. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Karma versus Caitlyn build consist of Redemption, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Caitlyn than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.0% battling Caitlyn with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Caitlyn as Karma, Karma players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Karma vs Caitlyn fights, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Caitlyn as Karma are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.