Karma vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Karma
based on 3,785 Karma vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Diana
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 Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Karma vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several influential Karma versus Diana counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Diana. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Diana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Diana
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Who is Better, Karma or Diana?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when taking on Diana, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes an ok counter to Diana.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Diana, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Diana.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Diana. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karma against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Diana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often gets less CS relative to Diana. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Karma versus Diana build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Diana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when countering Diana with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Diana as Karma, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Karma vs Diana fights, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
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