Karma vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Karma
based on 985 Karma vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Karma vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some valuable Karma versus Cassiopeia counter stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Cassiopeia. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Cassiopeia. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Karma or Cassiopeia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when facing off against Cassiopeia, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Karma makes an ok counter to Cassiopeia.
While Karma does have a higher win rate compared to Cassiopeia, when facing one another, Karma also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Cassiopeia.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Cassiopeia matchups, Karma is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a decent counter to Cassiopeia. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often gets less CS as Cassiopeia. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Karma versus Cassiopeia build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Cassiopeia than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 50.1% battling Cassiopeia with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Cassiopeia as Karma, Karma players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Karma vs Cassiopeia matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Cassiopeia as Karma are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.