Karma vs Cho'Gath
How to Beat Cho'Gath as Karma
based on 2,117 Karma vs Cho'Gath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Cho'Gath Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cho'Gath as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Cho'Gath
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 Cho'Gath
Focus on preventing Cho'Gath from reaching his max size.
Purchasing a few HP items decreases the chances of Cho'Gath killing you quickly.
Rupture has a smoke cloud indicating the area it will strike. Try to watch out for it to prevent Cho'Gath from being able to combo his abilities.
Karma vs Cho'Gath Counter Stats
How to Counter Cho'Gath with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential Karma versus Cho'Gath counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cho'Gath’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Cho'Gath. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Cho'Gath. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Cho'Gath
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Who is Better, Karma or Cho'Gath?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Cho'Gath, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter for Cho'Gath.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Cho'Gath, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Karma into Cho'Gath.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cho'Gath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Cho'Gath matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Karma is a trash counter for Cho'Gath. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Cho'Gath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma to counter Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically accumulates less CS relative to Cho'Gath. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Karma versus Cho'Gath build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Cho'Gath than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 47.8% battling Cho'Gath with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Cho'Gath as Karma, Karma players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Karma vs Cho'Gath counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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