Karma vs Draven
How to Beat Draven as Karma
based on 3,385 Karma vs Draven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Draven Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Draven as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Draven
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 Draven
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Karma vs Draven Counter Stats
How to Counter Draven with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some valuable Karma against Draven matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Draven’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Draven. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Draven. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Draven
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Who is Better, Karma or Draven?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Draven, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Karma makes an ok counter for Draven.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Draven, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Draven.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Draven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Draven matchups, Draven is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Draven. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Karma against Draven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma to counter Draven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often racks up less CS relative to Draven. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Karma versus Draven build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Draven than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when playing against Draven with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Draven 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Karma vs Draven counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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